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authorAndrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>2012-10-05 21:36:27 +0200
committerMel Gorman <[email protected]>2012-12-11 14:42:37 +0000
commit0b9d705297b273657923518dbea2377cd03532ed (patch)
tree9049d172d6fcd71790a4689c7fed62a912516265 /include/linux
parentbe3a728427a605990a7a0b6dbf9e29b68e266146 (diff)
mm: numa: Support NUMA hinting page faults from gup/gup_fast
Introduce FOLL_NUMA to tell follow_page to check pte/pmd_numa. get_user_pages must use FOLL_NUMA, and it's safe to do so because it always invokes handle_mm_fault and retries the follow_page later. KVM secondary MMU page faults will trigger the NUMA hinting page faults through gup_fast -> get_user_pages -> follow_page -> handle_mm_fault. Other follow_page callers like KSM should not use FOLL_NUMA, or they would fail to get the pages if they use follow_page instead of get_user_pages. [ This patch was picked up from the AutoNUMA tree. ] Originally-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> [ ported to this tree. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 1856c62d82cd..fa1615211159 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1572,6 +1572,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long address,
#define FOLL_MLOCK 0x40 /* mark page as mlocked */
#define FOLL_SPLIT 0x80 /* don't return transhuge pages, split them */
#define FOLL_HWPOISON 0x100 /* check page is hwpoisoned */
+#define FOLL_NUMA 0x200 /* force NUMA hinting page fault */
typedef int (*pte_fn_t)(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t token, unsigned long addr,
void *data);