It's unnecessary to lock the page when get ksm page if we're going to remove the rmap item as page migration is irrelevant in this case. Use GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK instead to save some page lock cycles. Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/ksm.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c index 359afb3023b4..5650a282da3e 100644 --- a/mm/ksm.c +++ b/mm/ksm.c @@ -778,12 +778,11 @@ static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item) struct page *page; stable_node = rmap_item->head; - page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, GET_KSM_PAGE_LOCK); + page = get_ksm_page(stable_node, GET_KSM_PAGE_NOLOCK); if (!page) goto out; hlist_del(&rmap_item->hlist); - unlock_page(page); put_page(page); if (!hlist_empty(&stable_node->hlist)) -- 2.19.1
