The patch titled Subject: mm/thp: fix call to mmu_notifier in set_pmd_migration_entry() v2 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-thp-fix-call-to-mmu_notifier-in-set_pmd_migration_entry-v2.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-thp-fix-call-to-mmu_notifier-in-set_pmd_migration_entry-v2.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-thp-fix-call-to-mmu_notifier-in-set_pmd_migration_entry-v2.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/thp: fix call to mmu_notifier in set_pmd_migration_entry() v2 Inside set_pmd_migration_entry() we are holding page table locks and thus we can not sleep so we can not call invalidate_range_start/end() So remove call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end() because they are call inside the function calling set_pmd_migration_entry() (see try_to_unmap_one()). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181012181056.7864-1-jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <zi.yan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Nellans <dnellans@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-fix-call-to-mmu_notifier-in-set_pmd_migration_entry-v2 +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2885,9 +2885,6 @@ void set_pmd_migration_entry(struct page if (!(pvmw->pmd && !pvmw->pte)) return; - mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, address, - address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); - flush_cache_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); pmdval = *pvmw->pmd; pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pvmw->pmd); @@ -2900,9 +2897,6 @@ void set_pmd_migration_entry(struct page set_pmd_at(mm, address, pvmw->pmd, pmdswp); page_remove_rmap(page, true); put_page(page); - - mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, address, - address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); } void remove_migration_pmd(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw, struct page *new) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-thp-fix-call-to-mmu_notifier-in-set_pmd_migration_entry-v2.patch