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authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>2013-10-07 11:29:14 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2013-10-09 12:40:44 +0200
commit25cbbef1924299249756bc4030fcb2436c019813 (patch)
tree9369e1194bf3ddc91a5298b04fe590845851565b
parent4591ce4f2d22dc9de7a6719161ce409b5fd1caac (diff)
mm: numa: Trap pmd hinting faults only if we would otherwise trap PTE faults
Base page PMD faulting is meant to batch handle NUMA hinting faults from PTEs. However, even is no PTE faults would ever be handled within a range the kernel still traps PMD hinting faults. This patch avoids the overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index f0b087d1069c..5aae39017d6d 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
do {
+ unsigned long this_pages;
+
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
@@ -165,8 +167,9 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
continue;
- pages += change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
+ this_pages = change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
dirty_accountable, prot_numa, &all_same_nidpid);
+ pages += this_pages;
/*
* If we are changing protections for NUMA hinting faults then
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* node. This allows a regular PMD to be handled as one fault
* and effectively batches the taking of the PTL
*/
- if (prot_numa && all_same_nidpid)
+ if (prot_numa && this_pages && all_same_nidpid)
change_pmd_protnuma(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmd);
} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);