The patch titled Subject: mm, thp: fix locking inconsistency in collapse_huge_page has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm, thp: fix locking inconsistency in collapse_huge_page After creating revalidate vma function, locking inconsistency occured due to directing the code path to wrong label. This patch directs to correct label and fix the inconsistency. Related commit that caused inconsistency: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=da4360877094368f6dfe75bbe804b0f0a5d575b0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464956884-4644-1-git-send-email-ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ebru Akagunduz <ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2 mm/huge_memory.c --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2 +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2491,13 +2491,18 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm curr_allocstall = sum_vm_event(ALLOCSTALL); down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); result = hugepage_vma_revalidate(mm, address); - if (result) - goto out; + if (result) { + mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + goto out_nolock; + } pmd = mm_find_pmd(mm, address); if (!pmd) { result = SCAN_PMD_NULL; - goto out; + mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true); + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + goto out_nolock; } /* @@ -2511,8 +2516,9 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm * label out. Continuing to collapse causes inconsistency. */ if (!__collapse_huge_page_swapin(mm, vma, address, pmd)) { + mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(new_page, memcg, true); up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - goto out; + goto out_nolock; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ebru.akagunduz@xxxxxxxxx are mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead.patch mm-make-optimistic-check-for-swapin-readahead-fix-3.patch mm-make-swapin-readahead-to-improve-thp-collapse-rate.patch mm-vmstat-calculate-particular-vm-event.patch mm-thp-avoid-unnecessary-swapin-in-khugepaged.patch mm-thp-avoid-unnecessary-swapin-in-khugepaged-fix-2.patch mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem.patch mm-thp-make-swapin-readahead-under-down_read-of-mmap_sem-fix-2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html