On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 05:04:00PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Comment is partly wrong, this improves it by including the case of > split_huge_pmd_address() called by try_to_unmap_one if > TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD is set. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++-- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c > index 9086793..1fbe13d 100644 > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c > @@ -3031,8 +3031,10 @@ void split_huge_pmd_address(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, > return; > > /* > - * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode, so a huge pmd cannot > - * materialize from under us. > + * Caller holds the mmap_sem write mode or the anon_vma lock, > + * so a huge pmd cannot materialize from under us (khugepaged > + * holds both the mmap_sem write mode and the anon_vma lock > + * write mode). > */ > __split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, address, freeze); > } -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>