File COW for THP is handled on pte level: just split the pmd.

It's not clear how benefitial would be allocation of huge pages on COW
faults. And it would require some code to make them work.

I think at some point we can consider teaching khugepaged to collapse
pages in COW mappings, but allocating huge on fault is probably
overkill.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <redacted>
---
 mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index a6744be151b6..178d21564e41 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c

@@ -3451,6 +3451,11 @@ static int wp_huge_pmd(struct fault_env *fe, pmd_t orig_pmd)
 	if (fe->vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault)
 		return fe->vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault(fe->vma, fe->address, fe->pmd,
 				fe->flags);
+
+	/* COW handled on pte level: split pmd */
+	VM_BUG_ON_VMA(fe->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED, fe->vma);
+	split_huge_pmd(fe->vma, fe->pmd, fe->address);
+
 	return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
 }
 

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2.8.1

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