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    thp: add pmd_huge_pte to mm_struct · e7a00c45
    Andrea Arcangeli authored
    
    
    This increase the size of the mm struct a bit but it is needed to
    preallocate one pte for each hugepage so that split_huge_page will not
    require a fail path.  Guarantee of success is a fundamental property of
    split_huge_page to avoid decrasing swapping reliability and to avoid
    adding -ENOMEM fail paths that would otherwise force the hugepage-unaware
    VM code to learn rolling back in the middle of its pte mangling operations
    (if something we need it to learn handling pmd_trans_huge natively rather
    being capable of rollback).  When split_huge_page runs a pte is needed to
    succeed the split, to map the newly splitted regular pages with a regular
    pte.  This way all existing VM code remains backwards compatible by just
    adding a split_huge_page* one liner.  The memory waste of those
    preallocated ptes is negligible and so it is worth it.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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