linux-kernel - Re: [patch for-4.20] Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling into alloc_hugepage_direct

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Date:   Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:33:40 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        ying.huang@...el.com, s.priebe@...fihost.ag,
        Linux List Kernel Mailing <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        alex.williamson@...hat.com, lkp@...org, kirill@...temov.name,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        zi.yan@...rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: [patch for-4.20] Revert "mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling
 into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask"

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 2:27 PM David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> I noticed the race in 89c83fb539f9 ("mm, thp: consolidate THP gfp handling
> into alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask") that is fixed by the revert, but as
> you noted it didn't cleanup the second part which is the balancing act for
> gfp flags between alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask() and alloc_pages_vma().
> Syzbot found this to trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() you mention.

Can you rewrite the commit message to explain this better rather than
the misleading "race" description?

                 Linus

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