linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 2/8] hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma

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Message-Id: <20210331034148.112624-3-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Date:   Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:41:42 -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>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Barry Song <song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/8] hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release

Now that cma_release is non-blocking and irq safe, there is no need to
drop hugetlb_lock before calling.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 3c3e4baa4156..1d62f0492e7b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1353,14 +1353,8 @@ 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