We should flush work when dissolving a hugetlb page to make sure that the hugetlb page is freed to the buddy. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index ade20954eb81..15e2c1dd32ea 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1328,6 +1328,12 @@ static void update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn(struct work_struct *work) } static DECLARE_WORK(hpage_update_work, update_hpage_vmemmap_workfn); +static inline void flush_hpage_update_work(struct hstate *h) +{ + if (free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h)) + flush_work(&hpage_update_work); +} + static inline void __update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page) { /* No need to allocate vmemmap pages */ @@ -1914,6 +1920,7 @@ static int free_pool_huge_page(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed, int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page) { int rc = -EBUSY; + struct hstate *h = NULL; /* Not to disrupt normal path by vainly holding hugetlb_lock */ if (!PageHuge(page)) @@ -1927,8 +1934,9 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page) if (!page_count(page)) { struct page *head = compound_head(page); - struct hstate *h = page_hstate(head); int nid = page_to_nid(head); + + h = page_hstate(head); if (h->free_huge_pages - h->resv_huge_pages == 0) goto out; @@ -1942,6 +1950,14 @@ int dissolve_free_huge_page(struct page *page) } out: spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); + + /* + * We should flush work before return to make sure that + * the HugeTLB page is freed to the buddy. + */ + if (!rc && h) + flush_hpage_update_work(h); + return rc; } -- 2.11.0