[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 13:35:11 +0800
From: "Hillf Danton" <hillf.zj@...baba-inc.com>
To: "'Kirill A. Shutemov'" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
"'Andrea Arcangeli'" <aarcange@...hat.com>,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"'Minchan Kim'" <minchan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] thp: fix MADV_DONTNEED vs. MADV_FREE race
On March 02, 2017 11:11 PM Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> Basically the same race as with numa balancing in change_huge_pmd(), but
> a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to preserve dirty/young flags
> here due to MADV_FREE functionality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> ---
> mm/huge_memory.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index bb2b3646bd78..324217c31ec9 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1566,8 +1566,6 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> deactivate_page(page);
>
> if (pmd_young(orig_pmd) || pmd_dirty(orig_pmd)) {
> - orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pmd,
> - tlb->fullmm);
> orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd);
> orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd);
>
$ grep -n set_pmd_at linux-4.10/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
/*
* set a new huge pmd. We should not be called for updating
* an existing pmd entry. That should go via pmd_hugepage_update.
*/
void set_pmd_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
Powered by blists - more mailing lists