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Commit 6b79c57b authored by Naoya Horiguchi's avatar Naoya Horiguchi Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: numa: disable change protection for vma(VM_HUGETLB)



Currently when a process accesses a hugetlb range protected with
PROTNONE, unexpected COWs are triggered, which finally puts the hugetlb
subsystem into a broken/uncontrollable state, where for example
h->resv_huge_pages is subtracted too much and wraps around to a very
large number, and the free hugepage pool is no longer maintainable.

This patch simply stops changing protection for vma(VM_HUGETLB) to fix
the problem.  And this also allows us to avoid useless overhead of minor
faults.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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