linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/8] mm: hugetlb: don't drop hugetlb_lock around cma

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Message-Id: <20210325002835.216118-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:28:29 -0700
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@....com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] mm: hugetlb: don't drop hugetlb_lock around cma_release() call

From: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Replace blocking cma_release() with a non-blocking cma_release_nowait()
call, so there is no more need to temporarily drop hugetlb_lock.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 408dbc08298a..f9ba63fc1747 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1258,10 +1258,11 @@ static void free_gigantic_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
 {
 	/*
 	 * If the page isn't allocated using the cma allocator,
-	 * cma_release() returns false.
+	 * cma_release_nowait() returns false.
 	 */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CMA
-	if (cma_release(hugetlb_cma[page_to_nid(page)], page, 1 << order))
+	if (cma_release_nowait(hugetlb_cma[page_to_nid(page)], page,
+			       1 << order))
 		return;
 #endif
 
@@ -1348,14 +1349,8 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
 	set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR);
 	set_page_refcounted(page);
 	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
-		/*
-		 * Temporarily drop the hugetlb_lock, because
-		 * we might block in free_gigantic_page().
-		 */
-		spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
 		destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
 		free_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
-		spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
 	} else {
 		__free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h));
 	}
-- 
2.30.2