mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd
Each page mapped in a process's address space must be correctly
accounted for in _mapcount. Normally the rules for this are
straightforward but hugetlbfs page table sharing is different. The page
table pages at the PMD level are reference counted while the mapcount
remains the same.
If this accounting is wrong, it causes bugs like this one reported by
Larry Woodman:
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:135!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU 22
Modules linked in: bridge stp llc sunrpc binfmt_misc dcdbas microcode pcspkr acpi_pad acpi]
Pid: 18001, comm: mpitest Tainted: G W 3.3.0+ #4 Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/07NDJ2
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8112cfed>] [<ffffffff8112cfed>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15d/0x170
Process mpitest (pid: 18001, threadinfo ffff880428972000, task ffff880428b5cc20)
Call Trace:
delete_from_page_cache+0x40/0x80
truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x1f0
hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x18/0x30
evict+0x9f/0x1b0
iput_final+0xe3/0x...
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