From a0368d4e48fc9ad65a66f6819a801f3f542b4f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:48:49 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: use get_page_foll() in follow_hugetlb_page() get_page_foll() is more optimal and is always safe to use under the PT lock. More so for hugetlbfs as there's no risk of race conditions with split_huge_page regardless of the PT lock. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Tested-by: Khalid Aziz Cc: Pravin Shelar Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index dee6cf4..7596e10 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -3079,7 +3079,7 @@ long follow_hugetlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, same_page: if (pages) { pages[i] = mem_map_offset(page, pfn_offset); - get_page(pages[i]); + get_page_foll(pages[i]); } if (vmas) -- 2.7.4