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authorJohn Hubbard <[email protected]>2020-04-01 21:05:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-04-02 09:35:27 -0700
commit47e29d32afba11b13efb51f03154a8cf22fb4360 (patch)
tree9d72042c87bfd951e56cf680c0372ed347240300 /scripts
parent3faa52c03f440d1b9ddef18c4f189f4790d52d7e (diff)
mm/gup: page->hpage_pinned_refcount: exact pin counts for huge pages
For huge pages (and in fact, any compound page), the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme tends to overflow too easily, each tail page increments the head page->_refcount by GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS (1024). That limits the number of huge pages that can be pinned. This patch removes that limitation, by using an exact form of pin counting for compound pages of order > 1. The "order > 1" is required because this approach uses the 3rd struct page in the compound page, and order 1 compound pages only have two pages, so that won't work there. A new struct page field, hpage_pinned_refcount, has been added, replacing a padding field in the union (so no new space is used). This enhancement also has a useful side effect: huge pages and compound pages (of order > 1) do not suffer from the "potential false positives" problem that is discussed in the page_dma_pinned() comment block. That is because these compound pages have extra space for tracking things, so they get exact pin counts instead of overloading page->_refcount. Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst is updated accordingly. Suggested-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]> Cc: Ira Weiny <[email protected]> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <[email protected]> Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Williams <[email protected]> Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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