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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<updated>2020-09-09T17:14:32+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm/rmap: fixup copying of soft dirty and uffd ptes</title>
<updated>2020-09-09T17:14:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alistair Popple</name>
<email>alistair@popple.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-04T23:36:01+00:00</published>
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commit ad7df764b7e1c7dc64e016da7ada2e3e1bb90700 upstream.

During memory migration a pte is temporarily replaced with a migration
swap pte.  Some pte bits from the existing mapping such as the soft-dirty
and uffd write-protect bits are preserved by copying these to the
temporary migration swap pte.

However these bits are not stored at the same location for swap and
non-swap ptes.  Therefore testing these bits requires using the
appropriate helper function for the given pte type.

Unfortunately several code locations were found where the wrong helper
function is being used to test soft_dirty and uffd_wp bits which leads to
them getting incorrectly set or cleared during page-migration.

Fix these by using the correct tests based on pte type.

Fixes: a5430dda8a3a ("mm/migrate: support un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE page in migration")
Fixes: 8c3328f1f36a ("mm/migrate: migrate_vma() unmap page from vma while collecting pages")
Fixes: f45ec5ff16a7 ("userfaultfd: wp: support swap and page migration")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ralph Campbell &lt;rcampbell@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Alistair Popple &lt;alistair@popple.id.au&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200825064232.10023-2-alistair@popple.id.au
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: remove call to huge_pte_alloc without i_mmap_rwsem</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:14:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:31:38+00:00</published>
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commit 34ae204f18519f0920bd50a644abd6fefc8dbfcf upstream.

Commit c0d0381ade79 ("hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing
synchronization") requires callers of huge_pte_alloc to hold i_mmap_rwsem
in at least read mode.  This is because the explicit locking in
huge_pmd_share (called by huge_pte_alloc) was removed.  When restructuring
the code, the call to huge_pte_alloc in the else block at the beginning of
hugetlb_fault was missed.

Unfortunately, that else clause is exercised when there is no page table
entry.  This will likely lead to a call to huge_pmd_share.  If
huge_pmd_share thinks pmd sharing is possible, it will traverse the
mapping tree (i_mmap) without holding i_mmap_rwsem.  If someone else is
modifying the tree, bad things such as addressing exceptions or worse
could happen.

Simply remove the else clause.  It should have been removed previously.
The code following the else will call huge_pte_alloc with the appropriate
locking.

To prevent this type of issue in the future, add routines to assert that
i_mmap_rwsem is held, and call these routines in huge pmd sharing
routines.

Fixes: c0d0381ade79 ("hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization")
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A.Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Prakash Sangappa &lt;prakash.sangappa@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e670f327-5cf9-1959-96e4-6dc7cc30d3d5@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem comments</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T16:39:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michel Lespinasse</name>
<email>walken@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T04:33:54+00:00</published>
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Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel]

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ying Han &lt;yinghan@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_ANON_THPS counter</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T03:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T23:02:01+00:00</published>
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With rmap memcg locking already in place for NR_ANON_MAPPED, it's just a
small step to remove the MEMCG_RSS_HUGE wart and switch memcg to the
native NR_ANON_THPS accounting sites.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fixes]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512121750.GA397968@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;	[build-tested]
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183105.225460-12-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_ANON_MAPPED counter</title>
<updated>2020-06-04T03:09:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-03T23:01:57+00:00</published>
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Memcg maintains a private MEMCG_RSS counter.  This divergence from the
generic VM accounting means unnecessary code overhead, and creates a
dependency for memcg that page-&gt;mapping is set up at the time of charging,
so that page types can be told apart.

Convert the generic accounting sites to mod_lruvec_page_state and friends
to maintain the per-cgroup vmstat counter of NR_ANON_MAPPED.  We use
lock_page_memcg() to stabilize page-&gt;mem_cgroup during rmap changes, the
same way we do for NR_FILE_MAPPED.

With the previous patch removing MEMCG_CACHE and the private NR_SHMEM
counter, this patch finally eliminates the need to have page-&gt;mapping set
up at charge time.  However, we need to have page-&gt;mem_cgroup set up by
the time rmap runs and does the accounting, so switch the commit and the
rmap callbacks around.

v2: fix temporary accounting bug by switching rmap&lt;-&gt;commit (Joonsoo)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alex Shi &lt;alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Balbir Singh &lt;bsingharora@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183105.225460-11-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: prevent a warning when casting void* -&gt; enum</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T17:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Palmer Dabbelt</name>
<email>palmerdabbelt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-07T03:08:00+00:00</published>
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I recently build the RISC-V port with LLVM trunk, which has introduced a
new warning when casting from a pointer to an enum of a smaller size.
This patch simply casts to a long in the middle to stop the warning.  I'd
be surprised this is the only one in the kernel, but it's the only one I
saw.

Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmerdabbelt@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227211741.83165-1-palmer@dabbelt.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: wp: support swap and page migration</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T17:43:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Xu</name>
<email>peterx@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-07T03:06:01+00:00</published>
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For either swap and page migration, we all use the bit 2 of the entry to
identify whether this entry is uffd write-protected.  It plays a similar
role as the existing soft dirty bit in swap entries but only for keeping
the uffd-wp tracking for a specific PTE/PMD.

Something special here is that when we want to recover the uffd-wp bit
from a swap/migration entry to the PTE bit we'll also need to take care of
the _PAGE_RW bit and make sure it's cleared, otherwise even with the
_PAGE_UFFD_WP bit we can't trap it at all.

In change_pte_range() we do nothing for uffd if the PTE is a swap entry.
That can lead to data mismatch if the page that we are going to write
protect is swapped out when sending the UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT.  This patch
also applies/removes the uffd-wp bit even for the swap entries.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bobby Powers &lt;bobbypowers@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Geffon &lt;bgeffon@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Denis Plotnikov &lt;dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jerome Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Martin Cracauer &lt;cracauer@cons.org&gt;
Cc: Marty McFadden &lt;mcfadden8@llnl.gov&gt;
Cc: Maya Gokhale &lt;gokhale2@llnl.gov&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shaohua Li &lt;shli@fb.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-11-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T17:43:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-07T03:04:35+00:00</published>
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Commit e496cf3d7821 ("thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE")
notes that it should be reverted when the PowerPC problem was fixed.  The
commit fixing the PowerPC problem (953c66c2b22a) did not revert the
commit; instead setting CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE to the same as
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.  Checking with Kirill and Aneesh, this was an
oversight, so remove the Kconfig symbol and undo the work of commit
e496cf3d7821.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200318140253.6141-6-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork"</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T17:43:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Xinhai</name>
<email>lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-07T03:03:36+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 4e4a9eb921332b9d1 ("mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable
anon_vma as parent when fork").

In dup_mmap(), anon_vma_fork() is called for attaching anon_vma and
parameter 'tmp' (i.e., the new vma of child) has same -&gt;vm_next and
-&gt;vm_prev as its parent vma.  That causes the anon_vma used by parent been
mistakenly shared by child (In anon_vma_clone(), the code added by that
commit will do this reuse work).

Besides this issue, the design of reusing anon_vma from vma which has gone
through fork should be avoided ([1]).  So, this patch reverts that commit
and maintains the consistent logic of reusing anon_vma for
fork/split/merge vma.

Reusing anon_vma within the process is fine.  But if a vma has gone
through fork(), then that vma's anon_vma should not be shared with its
neighbor vma.  As explained in [1], when vma gone through fork(), the
check for list_is_singular(vma-&gt;anon_vma_chain) will be false, and
don't share anon_vma.

With current issue, one example can clarify more.  Parent process do
below two steps:

1. p_vma_1 is created and p_anon_vma_1 is prepared;

2. p_vma_2 is created and share p_anon_vma_1; (this is allowed,
   becaues p_vma_1 didn't gothrough fork()); parent process do fork():

3. c_vma_1 is dup from p_vma_1, and has its own c_anon_vma_1
   prepared; at this point, c_vma_1-&gt;anon_vma_chain has two items, one
   for p_anon_vma_1 and one for c_anon_vma_1;

4. c_vma_2 is dup from p_vma_2, it is not allowed to share
   c_anon_vma_1, because

c_vma_1-&gt;anon_vma_chain has two items.
[1] commit d0e9fe1758f2 ("Simplify and comment on anon_vma re-use for
    anon_vma_prepare()") explains the test of "list_is_singular()".

Fixes: 4e4a9eb92133 ("mm/rmap.c: reuse mergeable anon_vma as parent when fork")
Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai &lt;lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581150928-3214-3-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization</title>
<updated>2020-04-02T16:35:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Kravetz</name>
<email>mike.kravetz@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-02T04:11:05+00:00</published>
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Patch series "hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more synchronization", v2.

While discussing the issue with huge_pte_offset [1], I remembered that
there were more outstanding hugetlb races.  These issues are:

1) For shared pmds, huge PTE pointers returned by huge_pte_alloc can become
   invalid via a call to huge_pmd_unshare by another thread.
2) hugetlbfs page faults can race with truncation causing invalid global
   reserve counts and state.

A previous attempt was made to use i_mmap_rwsem in this manner as
described at [2].  However, those patches were reverted starting with [3]
due to locking issues.

To effectively use i_mmap_rwsem to address the above issues it needs to be
held (in read mode) during page fault processing.  However, during fault
processing we need to lock the page we will be adding.  Lock ordering
requires we take page lock before i_mmap_rwsem.  Waiting until after
taking the page lock is too late in the fault process for the
synchronization we want to do.

To address this lock ordering issue, the following patches change the lock
ordering for hugetlb pages.  This is not too invasive as hugetlbfs
processing is done separate from core mm in many places.  However, I don't
really like this idea.  Much ugliness is contained in the new routine
hugetlb_page_mapping_lock_write() of patch 1.

The only other way I can think of to address these issues is by catching
all the races.  After catching a race, cleanup, backout, retry ...  etc,
as needed.  This can get really ugly, especially for huge page
reservations.  At one time, I started writing some of the reservation
backout code for page faults and it got so ugly and complicated I went
down the path of adding synchronization to avoid the races.  Any other
suggestions would be welcome.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1582342427-230392-1-git-send-email-longpeng2@huawei.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20181222223013.22193-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190103235452.29335-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1584028670.7365.182.camel@lca.pw/
[5] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200312183142.108df9ac@canb.auug.org.au/

This patch (of 2):

While looking at BUGs associated with invalid huge page map counts, it was
discovered and observed that a huge pte pointer could become 'invalid' and
point to another task's page table.  Consider the following:

A task takes a page fault on a shared hugetlbfs file and calls
huge_pte_alloc to get a ptep.  Suppose the returned ptep points to a
shared pmd.

Now, another task truncates the hugetlbfs file.  As part of truncation, it
unmaps everyone who has the file mapped.  If the range being truncated is
covered by a shared pmd, huge_pmd_unshare will be called.  For all but the
last user of the shared pmd, huge_pmd_unshare will clear the pud pointing
to the pmd.  If the task in the middle of the page fault is not the last
user, the ptep returned by huge_pte_alloc now points to another task's
page table or worse.  This leads to bad things such as incorrect page
map/reference counts or invalid memory references.

To fix, expand the use of i_mmap_rwsem as follows:
- i_mmap_rwsem is held in read mode whenever huge_pmd_share is called.
  huge_pmd_share is only called via huge_pte_alloc, so callers of
  huge_pte_alloc take i_mmap_rwsem before calling.  In addition, callers
  of huge_pte_alloc continue to hold the semaphore until finished with
  the ptep.
- i_mmap_rwsem is held in write mode whenever huge_pmd_unshare is called.

One problem with this scheme is that it requires taking i_mmap_rwsem
before taking the page lock during page faults.  This is not the order
specified in the rest of mm code.  Handling of hugetlbfs pages is mostly
isolated today.  Therefore, we use this alternative locking order for
PageHuge() pages.

         mapping-&gt;i_mmap_rwsem
           hugetlb_fault_mutex (hugetlbfs specific page fault mutex)
             page-&gt;flags PG_locked (lock_page)

To help with lock ordering issues, hugetlb_page_mapping_lock_write() is
introduced to write lock the i_mmap_rwsem associated with a page.

In most cases it is easy to get address_space via vma-&gt;vm_file-&gt;f_mapping.
However, in the case of migration or memory errors for anon pages we do
not have an associated vma.  A new routine _get_hugetlb_page_mapping()
will use anon_vma to get address_space in these cases.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Prakash Sangappa &lt;prakash.sangappa@oracle.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200316205756.146666-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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