| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.8 086/166] mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:51:40 -0800 |
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3.8.13.16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
commit 5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433 upstream.
If the PMD is flushed then a parallel fault in handle_mm_fault() will enter the pmd_none and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() path where it'll attempt to insert a huge zero page. This is wasteful so the patch avoids clearing the PMD when setting pmd_numa.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index a72d5ca..5d7dc7c 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, /* only check non-shared pages */ if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 && !pmd_numa(*pmd)) { - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); + entry = *pmd; entry = pmd_mknuma(entry); ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR; } -- 1.8.3.2
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