The routine huge_pmd_unshare is passed a pointer to an address associated with an area which may be unshared. If unshare is successful this address is updated to 'optimize' callers iterating over huge page addresses. For the optimization to work correctly, address should be updated to the last huge page in the unmapped/unshared area. However, in the common case where the passed address is PUD_SIZE aligned, the address is incorrectly updated to the address of the preceding huge page. That wastes CPU cycles as the unmapped/unshared range is scanned twice.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 39dde65c9940 ("shared page table for hugetlb page") Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz@oracle.com --- mm/hugetlb.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 01f0e2e5ab48..7c468ac1d069 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -6755,7 +6755,14 @@ int huge_pmd_unshare(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_clear(pud); put_page(virt_to_page(ptep)); mm_dec_nr_pmds(mm); - *addr = ALIGN(*addr, HPAGE_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PTE) - HPAGE_SIZE; + /* + * This update of passed address optimizes loops sequentially + * processing addresses in increments of huge page size (PMD_SIZE + * in this case). By clearing the pud, a PUD_SIZE area is unmapped. + * Update address to the 'last page' in the cleared area so that + * calling loop can move to first page past this area. + */ + *addr |= PUD_SIZE - PMD_SIZE; return 1; }