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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2012-12-12 22:50:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-13 02:38:31 +0100 |
| commit | e180377f1ae48b3cbc559c9875d9b038f7f000c6 (patch) | |
| tree | c51e0db181acc0372479bce5cd68b99abca7d8bb /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | thp: change_huge_pmd(): make sure we don't try to make a page writable (diff) | |
| download | linux-e180377f1ae48b3cbc559c9875d9b038f7f000c6.tar.xz linux-e180377f1ae48b3cbc559c9875d9b038f7f000c6.zip | |
thp: change split_huge_page_pmd() interface
Pass vma instead of mm and add address parameter.
In most cases we already have vma on the stack. We provides
split_huge_page_pmd_mm() for few cases when we have mm, but not vma.
This change is preparation to huge zero pmd splitting implementation.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index f734bb2a78dc..8f5b41db314c 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual. == Graceful fallback == Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call -split_huge_page_pmd(mm, pmd) where the pmd is the one returned by +split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd) where the pmd is the one returned by pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_page_pmd where missing after pmd_offset returns the pmd. Thanks to the graceful @@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c return NULL; pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); -+ split_huge_page_pmd(mm, pmd); ++ split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd); if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) return NULL; |