From: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> madvise_free_huge_pmd should return 0 if the fallback PTE operations are required. In madvise_free_huge_pmd, if part pages of THP are discarded, the THP will be split and fallback PTE operations should be used if splitting succeeds. But the original code will make fallback PTE operations skipped, after splitting succeeds. Fix that via make madvise_free_huge_pmd return 0 after splitting successfully, so that the fallback PTE operations will be done. Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index 848c16c..546cd21 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1287,14 +1287,9 @@ int madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) { get_page(page); spin_unlock(ptl); - if (split_huge_page(page)) { - put_page(page); - unlock_page(page); - goto out_unlocked; - } + split_huge_page(page); put_page(page); unlock_page(page); - ret = 1; goto out_unlocked; } -- 2.8.1 -- 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>