Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed 13-06-12 15:57:23, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: >> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Use a mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating >> pages when we unmap a hugepage range > > Sorry for coming up with the comment that late but you owe us an > explanation _why_ you are doing this. > > I assume that this fixes a real problem when we take i_mmap_mutex > already up in > unmap_mapping_range > mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex); > unmap_mapping_range_tree | unmap_mapping_range_list > unmap_mapping_range_vma > zap_page_range_single > unmap_single_vma > unmap_hugepage_range > mutex_lock(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_mutex); > > And that this should have been marked for stable as well (I haven't > checked when this has been introduced). Switch to mmu_gather is to get rid of the use of page->lru so that i can use it for active list. -aneesh -- 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>