mm: accelerate mm_populate() treatment of THP pages

This change adds a follow_page_mask function which is equivalent to
follow_page, but with an extra page_mask argument.

follow_page_mask sets *page_mask to HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1 when it encounters
a THP page, and to 0 in other cases.

__get_user_pages() makes use of this in order to accelerate populating
THP ranges - that is, when both the pages and vmas arrays are NULL, we
don't need to iterate HPAGE_PMD_NR times to cover a single THP page (and
we also avoid taking mm->page_table_lock that many times).

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index 6ab706608492..da0d210fd403 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -1819,9 +1819,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(mremap, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, old_len,
         return ret;
 }
 
-struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
-                        unsigned int foll_flags)
+struct page *follow_page_mask(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+                              unsigned long address, unsigned int flags,
+                              unsigned int *page_mask)
 {
+        *page_mask = 0;
         return NULL;
 }