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[v6,10/12] s390/mm: hugetlb pages within a gmap can not be freed

Message ID 20180713063702.54628-11-frankja@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
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Janosch Frank July 13, 2018, 6:37 a.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 cc63e269168e..8b1a293b00d3 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);
 	}