[PATCH v2 5/7] mm/thp: add THP allocation helper

[Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>]

Transparent huge page allocation policy is controlled by several sysfs
variables. Rather than expose these to each device driver that needs to
allocate THPs, provide a helper function.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h | 10 ++++++++++
 mm/huge_memory.c    | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 67a0774e080b..6faf4ea5501b 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -562,6 +562,16 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order,
 	alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, numa_node_id(), false)
 #define alloc_page_vma_node(gfp_mask, vma, addr, node)		\
 	alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, node, false)
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+extern struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					unsigned long addr);
+#else
+static inline struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+						unsigned long addr)
+{
+	return NULL;
+}
+#endif
 
 extern unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order);
 extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask);
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 1e848cc0c3dc..e4e1fe199dc1 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -764,6 +764,20 @@ vm_fault_t do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	return __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(vmf, page, gfp);
 }
 
+struct page *alloc_transhugepage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				 unsigned long haddr)
+{
+	gfp_t gfp;
+	struct page *page;
+
+	gfp = alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask(vma);
+	page = alloc_hugepage_vma(gfp, vma, haddr, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
+	if (page)
+		prep_transhuge_page(page);
+	return page;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_transhugepage);
+
 static void insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
 		pmd_t *pmd, pfn_t pfn, pgprot_t prot, bool write,
 		pgtable_t pgtable)
-- 
2.20.1