mm: thp: calculate the mapcount correctly for THP pages during WP faults
This will provide fully accuracy to the mapcount calculation in the write protect faults, so page pinning will not get broken by false positive copy-on-writes. total_mapcount() isn't the right calculation needed in reuse_swap_page(), so this introduces a page_trans_huge_mapcount() that is effectively the full accurate return value for page_mapcount() if dealing with Transparent Hugepages, however we only use the page_trans_huge_mapcount() during COW faults where it strictly needed, due to its higher runtime cost. This also provide at practical zero cost the total_mapcount information which is needed to know if we can still relocate the page anon_vma to the local vma. If page_trans_huge_mapcount() returns 1 we can reuse the page no matter if it's a pte or a pmd_trans_huge triggering the fault, but we can only relocate the page anon_vma to the local vma->anon_vma if we're sure it's only this "vma" mapping the whole THP physical range...
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