From: Vincent Donnefort Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 17:32:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: KVM: arm64: Do not transfer page refcount for THP adjustment X-Git-Tag: microblaze-v6.8~95^2^2~9^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.monstr.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c04bf723ccd639250fa680a0fb4e1ac15bb84c3b;p=linux-2.6-microblaze.git KVM: arm64: Do not transfer page refcount for THP adjustment GUP affects a refcount common to all pages forming the THP. There is therefore no need to move the refcount from a tail to the head page. Under the hood it decrements and increments the same counter. Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928173205.2826598-2-vdonnefort@google.com Signed-off-by: Oliver Upton --- diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c index 587a104f66c3..de5e5148ef5d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c @@ -1295,28 +1295,8 @@ transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, if (sz < PMD_SIZE) return PAGE_SIZE; - /* - * The address we faulted on is backed by a transparent huge - * page. However, because we map the compound huge page and - * not the individual tail page, we need to transfer the - * refcount to the head page. We have to be careful that the - * THP doesn't start to split while we are adjusting the - * refcounts. - * - * We are sure this doesn't happen, because mmu_invalidate_retry - * was successful and we are holding the mmu_lock, so if this - * THP is trying to split, it will be blocked in the mmu - * notifier before touching any of the pages, specifically - * before being able to call __split_huge_page_refcount(). - * - * We can therefore safely transfer the refcount from PG_tail - * to PG_head and switch the pfn from a tail page to the head - * page accordingly. - */ *ipap &= PMD_MASK; - kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn); pfn &= ~(PTRS_PER_PMD - 1); - get_page(pfn_to_page(pfn)); *pfnp = pfn; return PMD_SIZE;