Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:16:37 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -V9 04/15] hugetlb: use mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating pages |
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On Wed 13-06-12 22:07:06, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> writes: > > > On Wed 13-06-12 15:57:23, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > >> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > >> > >> Use a mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating > >> pages when we unmap a hugepage range > > > > Sorry for coming up with the comment that late but you owe us an > > explanation _why_ you are doing this. > > > > I assume that this fixes a real problem when we take i_mmap_mutex > > already up in > > unmap_mapping_range > > mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); > > unmap_mapping_range_tree | unmap_mapping_range_list > > unmap_mapping_range_vma > > zap_page_range_single > > unmap_single_vma > > unmap_hugepage_range > > mutex_lock(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_mutex); > > > > And that this should have been marked for stable as well (I haven't > > checked when this has been introduced). > > Switch to mmu_gather is to get rid of the use of page->lru so that i can use it for > active list.
So can we get this to the changelog please?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic
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