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mm, thp: introduce FOLL_SPLIT_PMD
authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Mon, 23 Sep 2019 22:38:25 +0000 (15:38 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 24 Sep 2019 22:54:11 +0000 (15:54 -0700)
commitfea9d279e58a4e6f42fe14a4f15134b0643b181d
treef24b90ed0dcca9ecfac4d5407b5d1fe88c8d9c23
parented5c19d4ea8036d40639faba6b81881315f4392b
mm, thp: introduce FOLL_SPLIT_PMD

Introduce a new foll_flag: FOLL_SPLIT_PMD.  As the name says
FOLL_SPLIT_PMD splits huge pmd for given mm_struct, the underlining huge
page stays as-is.

FOLL_SPLIT_PMD is useful for cases where we need to use regular pages, but
would switch back to huge page and huge pmd on.  One of such example is
uprobe.  The following patches use FOLL_SPLIT_PMD in uprobe.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190815164525.1848545-4-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/gup.c