The patch titled Subject: mm: release the spinlock on zap_pte_range has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-release-the-spinlock-on-zap_pte_range.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: release the spinlock on zap_pte_range In our testing (camera recording), Miguel and Wei found unmap_page_range() takes above 6ms with preemption disabled easily. When I see that, the reason is it holds page table spinlock during entire 512 page operation in a PMD. 6.2ms is never trivial for user experince if RT task couldn't run in the time because it could make frame drop or glitch audio problem. I had a time to benchmark it via adding some trace_printk hooks between pte_offset_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock in zap_pte_range. The testing device is 2018 premium mobile device. I can get 2ms delay rather easily to release 2M(ie, 512 pages) when the task runs on little core even though it doesn't have any IPI and LRU lock contention. It's already too heavy. If I remove activate_page, 35-40% overhead of zap_pte_range is gone so most of overhead(about 0.7ms) comes from activate_page via mark_page_accessed. Thus, if there are LRU contention, that 0.7ms could accumulate up to several ms. So this patch adds preemption point for once every 32 times in the loop. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190731061440.GC155569@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Miguel de Dios <migueldedios@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Wei Wang <wvw@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-release-the-spinlock-on-zap_pte_range +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1007,6 +1007,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struc struct zap_details *details) { struct mm_struct *mm = tlb->mm; + int progress = 0; int force_flush = 0; int rss[NR_MM_COUNTERS]; spinlock_t *ptl; @@ -1022,7 +1023,15 @@ again: flush_tlb_batched_pending(mm); arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); do { - pte_t ptent = *pte; + pte_t ptent; + + if (progress++ >= 32) { + progress = 0; + if (need_resched()) + break; + } + + ptent = *pte; if (pte_none(ptent)) continue; @@ -1123,8 +1132,11 @@ again: if (force_flush) { force_flush = 0; tlb_flush_mmu(tlb); - if (addr != end) - goto again; + } + + if (addr != end) { + progress = 0; + goto again; } return addr; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-introduce-madv_cold.patch mm-change-pageref_reclaim_clean-with-page_refreclaim.patch mm-introduce-madv_pageout.patch mm-introduce-madv_pageout-fix.patch mm-factor-out-common-parts-between-madv_cold-and-madv_pageout.patch