mm: incorporate zero pages into transparent huge pages

This patch improves THP collapse rates, by allowing zero pages.

Currently THP can collapse 4kB pages into a THP when there are up to
khugepaged_max_ptes_none pte_none ptes in a 2MB range.  This patch counts
pte none and mapped zero pages with the same variable.

The patch was tested with a program that allocates 800MB of
memory, and performs interleaved reads and writes, in a pattern
that causes some 2MB areas to first see read accesses, resulting
in the zero pfn being mapped there.

To simulate memory fragmentation at allocation time, I modified
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page to return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK for read faults.

Without the patch, only %50 of the program was collapsed into THP and the
percentage did not increase over time.

With this patch after 10 minutes of waiting khugepaged had collapsed %99
of the program's memory.

[[email protected]: fix bogus BUG()]
Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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