Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index fc00c8cb5a82..626e93db28ba 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1295,8 +1295,13 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	 * Avoid grouping on DSO/COW pages in specific and RO pages
 	 * in general, RO pages shouldn't hurt as much anyway since
 	 * they can be in shared cache state.
+	 *
+	 * FIXME! This checks "pmd_dirty()" as an approximation of
+	 * "is this a read-only page", since checking "pmd_write()"
+	 * is even more broken. We haven't actually turned this into
+	 * a writable page, so pmd_write() will always be false.
 	 */
-	if (!pmd_write(pmd))
+	if (!pmd_dirty(pmd))
 		flags |= TNF_NO_GROUP;
 
 	/*
@@ -1482,6 +1487,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 
 	if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma, &ptl) == 1) {
 		pmd_t entry;
+		ret = 1;
 
 		/*
 		 * Avoid trapping faults against the zero page. The read-only
@@ -1490,11 +1496,10 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 		 */
 		if (prot_numa && is_huge_zero_pmd(*pmd)) {
 			spin_unlock(ptl);
-			return 0;
+			return ret;
 		}
 
 		if (!prot_numa || !pmd_protnone(*pmd)) {
-			ret = 1;
 			entry = pmdp_get_and_clear_notify(mm, addr, pmd);
 			entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
 			ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;