commit 4b471e8898c3 ("mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting
PMDs") didn't remove all details about the THP split requirements for
RCU GUP-fast.
IPI broeadcasts on THP split are no longer required.
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 5abdaf487460..cfe71f422787 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2309,9 +2309,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
*
* Another way to achieve this is to batch up page table containing pages
* belonging to more than one mm_user, then rcu_sched a callback to free those
- * pages. Disabling interrupts will allow the fast_gup walker to both block
- * the rcu_sched callback, and an IPI that we broadcast for splitting THPs
- * (which is a relatively rare event). The code below adopts this strategy.
+ * pages. Disabling interrupts will allow the fast_gup walker to block the
+ * rcu_sched callback.
*
* Before activating this code, please be aware that the following assumptions
* are currently made:
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