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    thp: avoid breaking huge pmd invariants in case of vma_adjust failures · 94fcc585
    Andrea Arcangeli authored
    
    
    An huge pmd can only be mapped if the corresponding 2M virtual range is
    fully contained in the vma.  At times the VM calls split_vma twice, if the
    first split_vma succeeds and the second fail, the first split_vma remains
    in effect and it's not rolled back.  For split_vma or vma_adjust to fail
    an allocation failure is needed so it's a very unlikely event (the out of
    memory killer would normally fire before any allocation failure is visible
    to kernel and userland and if an out of memory condition happens it's
    unlikely to happen exactly here).  Nevertheless it's safer to ensure that
    no huge pmd can be left around if the vma is adjusted in a way that can't
    fit hugepages anymore at the new vm_start/vm_end address.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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