On Mon 05-04-21 16:00:39, Mike Kravetz wrote: > The new remove_hugetlb_page() routine is designed to remove a hugetlb > page from hugetlbfs processing. It will remove the page from the active > or free list, update global counters and set the compound page > destructor to NULL so that PageHuge() will return false for the 'page'. > After this call, the 'page' can be treated as a normal compound page or > a collection of base size pages. > > update_and_free_page no longer decrements h->nr_huge_pages{_node} as > this is performed in remove_hugetlb_page. The only functionality > performed by update_and_free_page is to free the base pages to the lower > level allocators. > > update_and_free_page is typically called after remove_hugetlb_page. > > remove_hugetlb_page is to be called with the hugetlb_lock held. > > Creating this routine and separating functionality is in preparation for > restructuring code to reduce lock hold times. This commit should not > introduce any changes to functionality. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Btw. I would prefer to reverse the ordering of this and Oscar's patchset. This one is a bug fix which might be interesting for stable backports while Oscar's work can be looked as a general functionality improvement. > @@ -2298,6 +2312,7 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *old_page, > /* > * Freed from under us. Drop new_page too. > */ > + remove_hugetlb_page(h, new_page, false); > update_and_free_page(h, new_page); > goto unlock; > } else if (page_count(old_page)) { > @@ -2305,6 +2320,7 @@ static int alloc_and_dissolve_huge_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *old_page, > * Someone has grabbed the page, try to isolate it here. > * Fail with -EBUSY if not possible. > */ > + remove_hugetlb_page(h, new_page, false); > update_and_free_page(h, new_page); > spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); > if (!isolate_huge_page(old_page, list)) the page is not enqued anywhere here so remove_hugetlb_page would blow when linked list debugging is enabled. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs