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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst index a560e0c01b16..1e2a637cc607 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -117,13 +117,15 @@ pages: - ->_refcount in tail pages is always zero: get_page_unless_zero() never succeeds on tail pages. - - map/unmap of the pages with PTE entry increment/decrement ->_mapcount - on relevant sub-page of the compound page. - - - map/unmap of the whole compound page is accounted for in compound_mapcount - (stored in first tail page). For file huge pages, we also increment - ->_mapcount of all sub-pages in order to have race-free detection of - last unmap of subpages. + - map/unmap of PMD entry for the whole compound page increment/decrement + ->compound_mapcount, stored in the first tail page of the compound page. + + - map/unmap of sub-pages with PTE entry increment/decrement ->_mapcount + on relevant sub-page of the compound page, and also increment/decrement + ->subpages_mapcount, stored in first tail page of the compound page. + In order to have race-free accounting of sub-pages mapped, changes to + sub-page ->_mapcount, ->subpages_mapcount and ->compound_mapcount are + are all locked by bit_spin_lock of PG_locked in the first tail ->flags. split_huge_page internally has to distribute the refcounts in the head page to the tail pages before clearing all PG_head/tail bits from the page |