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mm: mempolicy: don't have to split pmd for huge zero page
authorYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:51:07 +0000 (18:51 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 03:47:29 +0000 (20:47 -0700)
commit14799fb43e028bf37751e87a6ef64c9ab12bb86e
treecf8ddc688201b013dc504f97d3a89c817fe9af48
parenta8213a1fd9ff2d931ae809dffa3eee62151b0f59
mm: mempolicy: don't have to split pmd for huge zero page

When trying to migrate pages to obey mempolicy, the huge zero page is
split by inserting base zero pfn to all PTEs, then the page table walk
fallback to PTE level and just skips zero page.  Skipping zero page for
mempolicy has been the behavior of kernel since v2.6.16 due to commit
fa237b7d831d ("[PATCH] migration: make sure there is no attempt to migrate
reserved pages.").  So it seems pointless to split huge zero page, it
could be just skipped like base zero page.

Set ACTION_CONTINUE to prevent the walk_page_range() split the pmd for
this case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210609172146.3594-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210604203513.240709-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/mempolicy.c