Transparent huge page allocation policy is controlled by several sysfs variables. Rather than expose these to each device driver that needs to allocate THPs, provide a helper function.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell rcampbell@nvidia.com --- include/linux/gfp.h | 10 ++++++++++ mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h index 67a0774e080b..6faf4ea5501b 100644 --- a/include/linux/gfp.h +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -562,6 +562,16 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, numa_node_id(), false) #define alloc_page_vma_node(gfp_mask, vma, addr, node) \ alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, node, false) +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE +extern struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr); +#else +static inline struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long addr) +{ + return NULL; +} +#endif
extern unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order); extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask); diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 1e848cc0c3dc..e4e1fe199dc1 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -764,6 +764,20 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf) return __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(vmf, page, gfp); }
+struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long haddr) +{ + gfp_t gfp; + struct page *page; + + gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma); + page = alloc_hugepage_vma(gfp, vma, haddr, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER); + if (page) + prep_transhuge_page(page); + return page; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_transhugepage); + static void insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmd, pfn_t pfn, pgprot_t prot, bool write, pgtable_t pgtable)