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Commit 327e9fd4 authored by Thomas Hellstrom (VMware)'s avatar Thomas Hellstrom (VMware)
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mm: Split huge pages on write-notify or COW



The functions wp_huge_pmd() and wp_huge_pud() currently relies on the
huge_fault() callback to split huge page table entries if needed.
However for module users that requires export of the split_huge_xxx()
functionality which may be undesired. Instead split pre-existing huge
page-table entries on VM_FAULT_FALLBACK return.

We currently only do COW and write-notify on the PTE level, so if the
huge_fault() handler returns VM_FAULT_FALLBACK on wp faults,
split the huge pages and page-table entries. Also do this for huge PUDs
if there is no huge_fault() handler and the vma is not anonymous, similar
to how it's done for PMDs.

Note that fs/dax.c still does the splitting in the huge_fault() handler,
but as huge_fault() A follow-up patch can remove the dax.c split_huge_pmd()
if needed.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Hellstrom (VMware) <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
Acked-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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