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Commit baa355fd authored by Kirill A. Shutemov's avatar Kirill A. Shutemov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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thp: file pages support for split_huge_page()

Basic scheme is the same as for anon THP.

Main differences:

  - File pages are on radix-tree, so we have head->_count offset by
    HPAGE_PMD_NR. The count got distributed to small pages during split.

  - mapping->tree_lock prevents non-lockless access to pages under split
    over radix-tree;

  - Lockless access is prevented by setting the head->_count to 0 during
    split;

  - After split, some pages can be beyond i_size. We drop them from
    radix-tree.

  - We don't setup migration entries. Just unmap pages. It helps
    handling cases when i_size is in the middle of the page: no need
    handle unmap pages beyond i_size manually.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-20-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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