mm: sparsemem: use page table lock to protect kernel pmd operations

The init_mm.page_table_lock is used to protect kernel page tables, we
can use it to serialize splitting vmemmap PMD mappings instead of mmap
write lock, which can increase the concurrency of vmemmap_remap_free().

Actually, It increase the concurrency between allocations of HugeTLB
pages.  But it is not the only benefit.  There are a lot of users of
mmap read lock of init_mm.  The mmap write lock is holding through
vmemmap_remap_free(), removing mmap write lock usage to make it does not
affect other users of mmap read lock.  It is not making anything worse
and always a win to move.

Now the kernel page table walker does not hold the page_table_lock when
walking pmd entries.  There may be consistency issue of a pmd entry,
because pmd entry might change from a huge pmd entry to a PTE page
table.  There is only one user of kernel page table walker, namely
ptdump.  The ptdump already considers the consistency, which use a local
variable to cache the value of pmd entry.  But we also need to update
->action to ACTION_CONTINUE to make sure the walker does not walk every
pte entry again when concurrent thread has split the huge pmd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211101031651.75851-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@amazon.com>
Cc: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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