When fork() and stumble on top of a dma-pinned hugetlb private page, CoW must happen during fork() to guarantee dma coherency. In this specific path, hugetlb pages need to be allocated for the child process. Stop using avoid_reserve=1 flag here: it's not required to be used here, as dest_vma (which is destined to be a MAP_PRIVATE hugetlb vma) will have no private vma resv map, and that will make sure it won't be able to use a vma reservation later. No functional change intended with this change. Said that, it's still wanted to do this, so as to reduce the usage of avoid_reserve to the only one user, which is also why this flag was introduced initially in commit 04f2cbe35699 ("hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed"). I don't see whoever else should set it at all. Further patch will clean up resv accounting based on this. Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 9ce69fd22a01..8d4b4197d11b 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5317,7 +5317,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, spin_unlock(src_ptl); spin_unlock(dst_ptl); /* Do not use reserve as it's private owned */ - new_folio = alloc_hugetlb_folio(dst_vma, addr, 1); + new_folio = alloc_hugetlb_folio(dst_vma, addr, 0); if (IS_ERR(new_folio)) { folio_put(pte_folio); ret = PTR_ERR(new_folio); -- 2.47.0