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[v5,10/11] s390/mm: hugetlb pages within a gmap can not be freed

Message ID 20180706135529.88966-11-frankja@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
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Janosch Frank July 6, 2018, 1:55 p.m. UTC 
From: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Guests backed by huge pages could theoretically free unused pages via
the diagnose 10 instruction. We currently don't allow that, so we
don't have to refault it once it's needed again.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 arch/s390/mm/gmap.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c b/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
index 90f3c9dae983..8992f809e3a6 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/gmap.c
@@ -707,6 +707,12 @@  void gmap_discard(struct gmap *gmap, unsigned long from, unsigned long to)
 		vmaddr |= gaddr & ~PMD_MASK;
 		/* Find vma in the parent mm */
 		vma = find_vma(gmap->mm, vmaddr);
+		/*
+		 * We do not discard pages that are backed by
+		 * hugetlbfs, so we don't have to refault them.
+		 */
+		if (vma && is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
+			continue;
 		size = min(to - gaddr, PMD_SIZE - (gaddr & ~PMD_MASK));
 		zap_page_range(vma, vmaddr, size);
 	}