mm: introduce __p4d_alloc()

For full 5-level paging we need a helper to allocate p4d page table.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7f1c2163b3ce..235ba51b2fbf 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3906,6 +3906,29 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_mm_fault);
 
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED
+/*
+ * Allocate p4d page table.
+ * We've already handled the fast-path in-line.
+ */
+int __p4d_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
+{
+        p4d_t *new = p4d_alloc_one(mm, address);
+        if (!new)
+                return -ENOMEM;
+
+        smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc */
+
+        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+        if (pgd_present(*pgd))          /* Another has populated it */
+                p4d_free(mm, new);
+        else
+                pgd_populate(mm, pgd, new);
+        spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+        return 0;
+}
+#endif /* __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED */
+
 #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
 /*
  * Allocate page upper directory.