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diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index 37cc92f83a8d..20f46a7b2799 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -831,7 +831,8 @@ out:
* try_to_merge_one_page - take two pages and merge them into one
* @vma: the vma that holds the pte pointing to page
* @page: the PageAnon page that we want to replace with kpage
- * @kpage: the PageKsm page that we want to map instead of page
+ * @kpage: the PageKsm page that we want to map instead of page,
+ * or NULL the first time when we want to use page as kpage.
*
* This function returns 0 if the pages were merged, -EFAULT otherwise.
*/
@@ -864,15 +865,24 @@ static int try_to_merge_one_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* ptes are necessarily already write-protected. But in either
* case, we need to lock and check page_count is not raised.
*/
- if (write_protect_page(vma, page, &orig_pte) == 0 &&
- pages_identical(page, kpage))
- err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
+ if (write_protect_page(vma, page, &orig_pte) == 0) {
+ if (!kpage) {
+ /*
+ * While we hold page lock, upgrade page from
+ * PageAnon+anon_vma to PageKsm+NULL stable_node:
+ * stable_tree_insert() will update stable_node.
+ */
+ set_page_stable_node(page, NULL);
+ mark_page_accessed(page);
+ err = 0;
+ } else if (pages_identical(page, kpage))
+ err = replace_page(vma, page, kpage, orig_pte);
+ }
- if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) && !err) {
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) && kpage && !err) {
munlock_vma_page(page);
if (!PageMlocked(kpage)) {
unlock_page(page);
- lru_add_drain();
lock_page(kpage);
mlock_vma_page(kpage);
page = kpage; /* for final unlock */
@@ -922,7 +932,7 @@ out:
* This function returns the kpage if we successfully merged two identical
* pages into one ksm page, NULL otherwise.
*
- * Note that this function allocates a new kernel page: if one of the pages
+ * Note that this function upgrades page to ksm page: if one of the pages
* is already a ksm page, try_to_merge_with_ksm_page should be used.
*/
static struct page *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
@@ -930,10 +940,7 @@ static struct page *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
struct rmap_item *tree_rmap_item,
struct page *tree_page)
{
- struct mm_struct *mm = rmap_item->mm;
- struct vm_area_struct *vma;
- struct page *kpage;
- int err = -EFAULT;
+ int err;
/*
* The number of nodes in the stable tree
@@ -943,37 +950,10 @@ static struct page *try_to_merge_two_pages(struct rmap_item *rmap_item,
ksm_max_kernel_pages <= ksm_pages_shared)
return NULL;
- kpage = alloc_page(GFP_HIGHUSER);
- if (!kpage)
- return NULL;
-
- down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
- if (ksm_test_exit(mm))
- goto up;
- vma = find_vma(mm, rmap_item->address);
- if (!vma || vma->vm_start > rmap_item->address)
- goto up;
-
- copy_user_highpage(kpage, page, rmap_item->address, vma);
-
- SetPageDirty(kpage);
- __SetPageUptodate(kpage);
- SetPageSwapBacked(kpage);
- set_page_stable_node(kpage, NULL); /* mark it PageKsm */
- lru_cache_add_lru(kpage, LRU_ACTIVE_ANON);
-
- err = try_to_merge_one_page(vma, page, kpage);
- if (err)
- goto up;
-
- /* Must get reference to anon_vma while still holding mmap_sem */
- hold_anon_vma(rmap_item, vma->anon_vma);
-up:
- up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-
+ err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(rmap_item, page, NULL);
if (!err) {
err = try_to_merge_with_ksm_page(tree_rmap_item,
- tree_page, kpage);
+ tree_page, page);
/*
* If that fails, we have a ksm page with only one pte
* pointing to it: so break it.
@@ -981,11 +961,7 @@ up:
if (err)
break_cow(rmap_item);
}
- if (err) {
- put_page(kpage);
- kpage = NULL;
- }
- return kpage;
+ return err ? NULL : page;
}
/*
@@ -1244,7 +1220,6 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
stable_tree_append(rmap_item, stable_node);
}
unlock_page(kpage);
- put_page(kpage);
/*
* If we fail to insert the page into the stable tree,