mm: drop tail page refcounting

Tail page refcounting is utterly complicated and painful to support.

It uses ->_mapcount on tail pages to store how many times this page is
pinned.  get_page() bumps ->_mapcount on tail page in addition to
->_count on head.  This information is required by split_huge_page() to
be able to distribute pins from head of compound page to tails during
the split.

We will need ->_mapcount to account PTE mappings of subpages of the
compound page.  We eliminate need in current meaning of ->_mapcount in
tail pages by forbidding split entirely if the page is pinned.

The only user of tail page refcounting is THP which is marked BROKEN for
now.

Let's drop all this mess.  It makes get_page() and put_page() much
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 6bc9a0ce2253..faf6fe88d6b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -81,20 +81,9 @@ struct page {
 
 				union {
 					/*
-					 * Count of ptes mapped in
-					 * mms, to show when page is
-					 * mapped & limit reverse map
-					 * searches.
-					 *
-					 * Used also for tail pages
-					 * refcounting instead of
-					 * _count. Tail pages cannot
-					 * be mapped and keeping the
-					 * tail page _count zero at
-					 * all times guarantees
-					 * get_page_unless_zero() will
-					 * never succeed on tail
-					 * pages.
+					 * Count of ptes mapped in mms, to show
+					 * when page is mapped & limit reverse
+					 * map searches.
 					 */
 					atomic_t _mapcount;