thp: kvm mmu transparent hugepage support

This should work for both hugetlbfs and transparent hugepages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: bring forward PageTransCompound() addition for bisectability]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7f68625..85ab7db 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -104,8 +104,36 @@ static pfn_t fault_pfn;
 inline int kvm_is_mmio_pfn(pfn_t pfn)
 {
 	if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
-		struct page *page = compound_head(pfn_to_page(pfn));
-		return PageReserved(page);
+		struct page *head;
+		struct page *tail = pfn_to_page(pfn);
+		head = compound_head(tail);
+		if (head != tail) {
+			smp_rmb();
+			/*
+			 * head may be a dangling pointer.
+			 * __split_huge_page_refcount clears PageTail
+			 * before overwriting first_page, so if
+			 * PageTail is still there it means the head
+			 * pointer isn't dangling.
+			 */
+			if (PageTail(tail)) {
+				/*
+				 * the "head" is not a dangling
+				 * pointer but the hugepage may have
+				 * been splitted from under us (and we
+				 * may not hold a reference count on
+				 * the head page so it can be reused
+				 * before we run PageReferenced), so
+				 * we've to recheck PageTail before
+				 * returning what we just read.
+				 */
+				int reserved = PageReserved(head);
+				smp_rmb();
+				if (PageTail(tail))
+					return reserved;
+			}
+		}
+		return PageReserved(tail);
 	}
 
 	return true;