Re: [PATCH][mm/memory.c]: transparent hugepage check condition missed

[Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 06:56:57PM +0800, GuanJun He wrote:
> For the transparent hugepage module still does not support
> tmpfs and cache,the check condition should always be checked
> to make sure that it only affect the anonymous maps, the
> original check condition missed this, this patch is to fix this.
> Otherwise,the hugepage may affect the file-backed maps,
> then the cache for the small-size pages will be unuseful,
> and till now there is still no implementation for hugepage's cache.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Guanjun He <gjhe@suse.com>
> ---
>  mm/memory.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index a56e3ba..79b85fe 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3475,7 +3475,8 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct
> vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		if (pmd_trans_huge(orig_pmd)) {
>  			if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE &&
>  			    !pmd_write(orig_pmd) &&
> -			    !pmd_trans_splitting(orig_pmd))
> +			    !pmd_trans_splitting(orig_pmd) &&
> +			    !vma->vm_ops)
>  				return do_huge_pmd_wp_page(mm, vma, address,
>  							   pmd, orig_pmd);
>  			return 0;

Not needed, this is the cow case and pmd_trans_huge can't be true if
vm_ops is not null. That's already checked a few lines before the
above code and in collapse_huge_page for khugepaged.

Thanks.