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[PATCHv2 7/7] mm: introduce __p4d_alloc()

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For full 5-level paging we need a helper to allocate p4d page table.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 7f1c2163b3ce..235ba51b2fbf 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3906,6 +3906,29 @@ int handle_mm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(handle_mm_fault);
 
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED
+/*
+ * Allocate p4d page table.
+ * We've already handled the fast-path in-line.
+ */
+int __p4d_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address)
+{
+	p4d_t *new = p4d_alloc_one(mm, address);
+	if (!new)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc */
+
+	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+	if (pgd_present(*pgd))		/* Another has populated it */
+		p4d_free(mm, new);
+	else
+		pgd_populate(mm, pgd, new);
+	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED */
+
 #ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
 /*
  * Allocate page upper directory.
-- 
2.11.0

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[PATCHv2 0/7] 5-level paging: prepare generic code "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
  [PATCHv2 4/7] arch, mm: convert all architectures to use 5level-fixup.h "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
  [PATCHv2 7/7] mm: introduce __p4d_alloc() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
  [PATCHv2 1/7] x86/cpufeature: Add 5-level paging detection "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
  [PATCHv2 5/7] asm-generic: introduce <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h> "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-09 15:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCHv2 0/7] 5-level paging: prepare generic code Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-03-09 21:30 +0100

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