From 033193275b3ffcfe7f3fde7b569f3d207f6cd6a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Hansen Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:32:56 -0700 Subject: pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary Right now, if a mm_walk has either ->pte_entry or ->pmd_entry set, it will unconditionally split any transparent huge pages it runs in to. In practice, that means that anyone doing a cat /proc/$pid/smaps will unconditionally break down every huge page in the process and depend on khugepaged to re-collapse it later. This is fairly suboptimal. This patch changes that behavior. It teaches each ->pmd_entry handler (there are five) that they must break down the THPs themselves. Also, the _generic_ code will never break down a THP unless a ->pte_entry handler is actually set. This means that the ->pmd_entry handlers can now choose to deal with THPs without breaking them down. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: David Rientjes Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson Tested-by: Eric B Munson Cc: Michael J Wolf Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 901435e3a9a9..294104e0891d 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -914,6 +914,9 @@ unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather **tlb, * @pgd_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PGD (top-level) entry * @pud_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PUD (2nd-level) entry * @pmd_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PMD (3rd-level) entry + * this handler is required to be able to handle + * pmd_trans_huge() pmds. They may simply choose to + * split_huge_page() instead of handling it explicitly. * @pte_entry: if set, called for each non-empty PTE (4th-level) entry * @pte_hole: if set, called for each hole at all levels * @hugetlb_entry: if set, called for each hugetlb entry -- cgit