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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:47:08 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:45 -0800
commit94fcc585fb85ad7b059c70872489b50044d401f3 (patch)
tree67efce3803149bec77df1f50a06f384deae02ba6 /virt
parentbc835011afbea3957217ee716093d791fb2fe44f (diff)
thp: avoid breaking huge pmd invariants in case of vma_adjust failures
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: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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