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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2012-12-12 13:51:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-12 17:38:31 -0800
commit78ca0e679203bbf74f8febd9725a1c8dd083d073 (patch)
tree6b2541d8cb1ee2697eb12a299447e5afc78f830c /mm
parent80371957f09814d25c38733d2d08de47f59a13c2 (diff)
thp: lazy huge zero page allocation
Instead of allocating huge zero page on hugepage_init() we can postpone it until first huge zero page map. It saves memory if THP is not in use. cmpxchg() is used to avoid race on huge_zero_pfn initialization. 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 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c20
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index e1b6f4e13b91..9539d6654bb9 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -160,22 +160,24 @@ static int start_khugepaged(void)
return err;
}
-static int __init init_huge_zero_page(void)
+static int init_huge_zero_pfn(void)
{
struct page *hpage;
+ unsigned long pfn;
hpage = alloc_pages((GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_ZERO) & ~__GFP_MOVABLE,
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
if (!hpage)
return -ENOMEM;
-
- huge_zero_pfn = page_to_pfn(hpage);
+ pfn = page_to_pfn(hpage);
+ if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_pfn, 0, pfn))
+ __free_page(hpage);
return 0;
}
static inline bool is_huge_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
{
- return pfn == huge_zero_pfn;
+ return huge_zero_pfn && pfn == huge_zero_pfn;
}
static inline bool is_huge_zero_pmd(pmd_t pmd)
@@ -564,10 +566,6 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
if (err)
return err;
- err = init_huge_zero_page();
- if (err)
- goto out;
-
err = khugepaged_slab_init();
if (err)
goto out;
@@ -590,8 +588,6 @@ static int __init hugepage_init(void)
return 0;
out:
- if (huge_zero_pfn)
- __free_page(pfn_to_page(huge_zero_pfn));
hugepage_exit_sysfs(hugepage_kobj);
return err;
}
@@ -735,6 +731,10 @@ int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
pgtable_t pgtable;
+ if (unlikely(!huge_zero_pfn && init_huge_zero_pfn())) {
+ count_vm_event(THP_FAULT_FALLBACK);
+ goto out;
+ }
pgtable = pte_alloc_one(mm, haddr);
if (unlikely(!pgtable))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;