The patch titled Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: reduce critical section protected by split_queue_lock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-huge_memoryc-reduce-critical-section-protected-by-split_queue_lock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/huge_memory.c: reduce critical section protected by split_queue_lock split_queue_lock protects data in struct deferred_split. We can release the lock after delete the page from deferred_split_queue. This patch moves the THP accounting out of the lock protection, which is introduced in commit 65c453778aea ("mm, rmap: account shmem thp pages"). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200110025516.23996-1-richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-huge_memoryc-reduce-critical-section-protected-by-split_queue_lock +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2799,6 +2799,7 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page ds_queue->split_queue_len--; list_del(page_deferred_list(head)); } + spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); if (mapping) { if (PageSwapBacked(head)) __dec_node_page_state(head, NR_SHMEM_THPS); @@ -2806,7 +2807,6 @@ int split_huge_page_to_list(struct page __dec_node_page_state(head, NR_FILE_THPS); } - spin_unlock(&ds_queue->split_queue_lock); __split_huge_page(page, list, end, flags); if (PageSwapCache(head)) { swp_entry_t entry = { .val = page_private(head) }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are