mm: don't install PMD mappings when THPs are disabled by the hw/process/vma
We (or rather, readahead logic :) ) might be allocating a THP in the pagecache and then try mapping it into a process that explicitly disabled THP: we might end up installing PMD mappings. This is a problem for s390x KVM, which explicitly remaps all PMD-mapped THPs to be PTE-mapped in s390_enable_sie()->thp_split_mm(), before starting the VM. For example, starting a VM backed on a file system with large folios supported makes the VM crash when the VM tries accessing such a mapping using KVM. Is it also a problem when the HW disabled THP using TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_UNSUPPORTED? At least on x86 this would be the case without X86_FEATURE_PSE. In the future, we might be able to do better on s390x and only disallow PMD mappings -- what s390x and likely TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_UNSUPPORTED really wants. For now, fix it by essentially performing the same check as would be done in __thp_vma_allowable_orders() or in shmem code, where this works as expected, and disallow PMD mappings, making us fallback to PTE mappings. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241011102445.934409-3-david@redhat.com Fixes: 793917d9 ("mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead") Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reported-by: Leo Fu <bfu@redhat.com> Tested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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