tree 659cd9d8f553cb24ff2f104bf1fae273325ae5f0
parent 09180ca4b3bc7b1ffdbae62a75f716dfc0685861
author Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> 1504740061 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1504744046 -0700

mm/hugetlb.c: make huge_pte_offset() consistent and document behaviour

When walking the page tables to resolve an address that points to
!p*d_present() entry, huge_pte_offset() returns inconsistent values
depending on the level of page table (PUD or PMD).

It returns NULL in the case of a PUD entry while in the case of a PMD
entry, it returns a pointer to the page table entry.

A similar inconsitency exists when handling swap entries - returns NULL
for a PUD entry while a pointer to the pte_t is retured for the PMD
entry.

Update huge_pte_offset() to make the behaviour consistent - return a
pointer to the pte_t for hugepage or swap entries.  Only return NULL in
instances where we have a p*d_none() entry and the size parameter
doesn't match the hugepage size at this level of the page table.

Document the behaviour to clarify the expected behaviour of this
function.  This is to set clear semantics for architecture specific
implementations of huge_pte_offset().

Discussions on the arm64 implementation of huge_pte_offset()
(http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg133699.html) showed that there
is benefit from returning a pte_t* in the case of p*d_none().

The fault handling code in hugetlb_fault() can handle p*d_none() entries
and saves an extra round trip to huge_pte_alloc().  Other callers of
huge_pte_offset() should be ok as well.

[punit.agrawal@arm.com: v2]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170725154114.24131-2-punit.agrawal@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>