Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2020 09:55:00 -0500 | From | Johannes Weiner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v20 13/20] mm/mlock: remove lru_lock on TestClearPageMlocked |
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 06:44:58PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > In the func munlock_vma_page, comments mentained lru_lock needed for > serialization with split_huge_pages. But the page must be PageLocked > as well as pages in split_huge_page series funcs. Thus the PageLocked > is enough to serialize both funcs. > > Further more, Hugh Dickins pointed: before splitting in > split_huge_page_to_list, the page was unmap_page() to remove pmd/ptes > which protect the page from munlock. Thus, no needs to guard > __split_huge_page_tail for mlock clean, just keep the lru_lock there for > isolation purpose. > > LKP found a preempt issue on __mod_zone_page_state which need change > to mod_zone_page_state. Thanks! > > Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> > Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> > Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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