mm: drop tail page refcounting

Tail page refcounting is utterly complicated and painful to support.

It uses ->_mapcount on tail pages to store how many times this page is
pinned.  get_page() bumps ->_mapcount on tail page in addition to
->_count on head.  This information is required by split_huge_page() to
be able to distribute pins from head of compound page to tails during
the split.

We will need ->_mapcount to account PTE mappings of subpages of the
compound page.  We eliminate need in current meaning of ->_mapcount in
tail pages by forbidding split entirely if the page is pinned.

The only user of tail page refcounting is THP which is marked BROKEN for
now.

Let's drop all this mess.  It makes get_page() and put_page() much
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
Cc: Steve Capper <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 51 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 839d9e9a1c38..34387351930c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -466,44 +466,9 @@ static inline int page_count(struct page *page)
 	return atomic_read(&compound_head(page)->_count);
 }
 
-static inline bool __compound_tail_refcounted(struct page *page)
-{
-	return PageAnon(page) && !PageSlab(page) && !PageHeadHuge(page);
-}
-
-/*
- * This takes a head page as parameter and tells if the
- * tail page reference counting can be skipped.
- *
- * For this to be safe, PageSlab and PageHeadHuge must remain true on
- * any given page where they return true here, until all tail pins
- * have been released.
- */
-static inline bool compound_tail_refcounted(struct page *page)
-{
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
-	return __compound_tail_refcounted(page);
-}
-
-static inline void get_huge_page_tail(struct page *page)
-{
-	/*
-	 * __split_huge_page_refcount() cannot run from under us.
-	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageTail(page), page);
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_mapcount(page) < 0, page);
-	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page->_count) != 0, page);
-	if (compound_tail_refcounted(compound_head(page)))
-		atomic_inc(&page->_mapcount);
-}
-
-extern bool __get_page_tail(struct page *page);
-
 static inline void get_page(struct page *page)
 {
-	if (unlikely(PageTail(page)))
-		if (likely(__get_page_tail(page)))
-			return;
+	page = compound_head(page);
 	/*
 	 * Getting a normal page or the head of a compound page
 	 * requires to already have an elevated page->_count.
@@ -528,7 +493,15 @@ static inline void init_page_count(struct page *page)
 	atomic_set(&page->_count, 1);
 }
 
-void put_page(struct page *page);
+void __put_page(struct page *page);
+
+static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
+{
+	page = compound_head(page);
+	if (put_page_testzero(page))
+		__put_page(page);
+}
+
 void put_pages_list(struct list_head *pages);
 
 void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 6bc9a0ce2253..faf6fe88d6b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -81,20 +81,9 @@ struct page {
 
 				union {
 					/*
-					 * Count of ptes mapped in
-					 * mms, to show when page is
-					 * mapped & limit reverse map
-					 * searches.
-					 *
-					 * Used also for tail pages
-					 * refcounting instead of
-					 * _count. Tail pages cannot
-					 * be mapped and keeping the
-					 * tail page _count zero at
-					 * all times guarantees
-					 * get_page_unless_zero() will
-					 * never succeed on tail
-					 * pages.
+					 * Count of ptes mapped in mms, to show
+					 * when page is mapped & limit reverse
+					 * map searches.
 					 */
 					atomic_t _mapcount;