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authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>2019-09-23 15:38:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-24 15:54:11 -0700
commit5a52c9df62b422087d0c88fc79641028e4472a3b (patch)
tree272587750b08e79e0547d2569a77395145d12cf0 /kernel
parentbfe7b00de6d1e25fee08484c4fbf1c1ed175be78 (diff)
uprobe: use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD instead of FOLL_SPLIT
Use the newly added FOLL_SPLIT_PMD in uprobe. This preserves the huge page when the uprobe is enabled. When the uprobe is disabled, newer instances of the same application could still benefit from huge page. For the next step, we will enable khugepaged to regroup the pmd, so that existing instances of the application could also benefit from huge page after the uprobe is disabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-5-songliubraving@fb.com Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/uprobes.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 648f47553bff..27b596f14463 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
{
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
struct page_vma_mapped_walk pvmw = {
- .page = old_page,
+ .page = compound_head(old_page),
.vma = vma,
.address = addr,
};
@@ -166,8 +166,6 @@ static int __replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, vma, mm, addr,
addr + PAGE_SIZE);
- VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTransHuge(old_page), old_page);
-
if (new_page) {
err = mem_cgroup_try_charge(new_page, vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL,
&memcg, false);
@@ -481,7 +479,7 @@ int uprobe_write_opcode(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
retry:
/* Read the page with vaddr into memory */
ret = get_user_pages_remote(NULL, mm, vaddr, 1,
- FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_SPLIT, &old_page, &vma, NULL);
+ FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_SPLIT_PMD, &old_page, &vma, NULL);
if (ret <= 0)
return ret;