We don't need to split THP page when MADV_FREE syscall is
called. It could be done when VM decide really frees it so
we could avoid unnecessary THP split.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org>
---
 mm/madvise.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 mm/rmap.c    |  7 +++----
 mm/vmscan.c  | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index a6aa7d4c4e02..77f13a99584c 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -272,7 +272,25 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned 
long addr,
        pte_t *pte, ptent;
        struct page *page;
 
-       split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+       if (pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma, &ptl) == 1) {
+               struct page *page;
+               pmd_t orig_pmd;
+
+               orig_pmd = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+
+               /* No hugepage in swapcache */
+               page = pmd_page(orig_pmd);
+               VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageSwapCache(page), page);
+
+               orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd);
+               orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd);
+
+               set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd);
+               tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
+               spin_unlock(ptl);
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        if (pmd_trans_unstable(pmd))
                return 0;
 
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index a8e34596dc97..67e1c1859c1d 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -703,10 +703,9 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct page *page, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma,
                if (pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify(vma, address, pmd))
                        referenced++;
 
-               /*
-                * In this implmentation, MADV_FREE doesn't support THP free
-                */
-               dirty++;
+               if (pmd_dirty(*pmd))
+                       dirty++;
+
                spin_unlock(ptl);
        } else {
                pte_t *pte;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index d88413ccadcc..6557f0b36321 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -971,17 +971,25 @@ static unsigned long shrink_page_list(struct list_head 
*page_list,
                 * Anonymous process memory has backing store?
                 * Try to allocate it some swap space here.
                 */
-               if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page) && !freeable) {
-                       if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
-                               goto keep_locked;
-                       if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
-                               goto activate_locked;
-                       may_enter_fs = 1;
-
-                       /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
-                       mapping = page_mapping(page);
+               if (PageAnon(page) && !PageSwapCache(page)) {
+                       if (!freeable) {
+                               if (!(sc->gfp_mask & __GFP_IO))
+                                       goto keep_locked;
+                               if (!add_to_swap(page, page_list))
+                                       goto activate_locked;
+                               may_enter_fs = 1;
+                               /* Adding to swap updated mapping */
+                               mapping = page_mapping(page);
+                       } else {
+                               if (likely(!PageTransHuge(page)))
+                                       goto unmap;
+                               /* try_to_unmap isn't aware of THP page */
+                               if (unlikely(split_huge_page_to_list(page,
+                                                               page_list)))
+                                       goto keep_locked;
+                       }
                }
-
+unmap:
                /*
                 * The page is mapped into the page tables of one or more
                 * processes. Try to unmap it here.
-- 
2.0.0

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