The patch titled Subject: mm: khugepaged: don't have to put being freed page back to lru has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-khugepaged-dont-have-to-put-being-freed-page-back-to-lru.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: khugepaged: don't have to put being freed page back to lru When khugepaged successfully isolated and copied data from old page to collapsed THP, the old page is about to be freed if its last mapcount is gone. So putting the page back to lru sounds not that productive in this case since the page might be isolated by vmscan but it can't be reclaimed by vmscan since it can't be unmapped by try_to_unmap() at all. Actually if khugepaged is the last user of this page so it can be freed directly. So, clearing active and unevictable flags, unlocking and dropping refcount from isolate instead of calling putback_lru_page(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1588279279-61908-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/khugepaged.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-dont-have-to-put-being-freed-page-back-to-lru +++ a/mm/khugepaged.c @@ -559,10 +559,18 @@ void __khugepaged_exit(struct mm_struct static void release_pte_page(struct page *page) { mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), - NR_ISOLATED_ANON + page_is_file_lru(page), - -compound_nr(page)); - unlock_page(page); - putback_lru_page(page); + NR_ISOLATED_ANON + page_is_file_lru(page), -compound_nr(page)); + + if (total_mapcount(page)) { + unlock_page(page); + putback_lru_page(page); + } else { + ClearPageActive(page); + ClearPageUnevictable(page); + unlock_page(page); + /* Drop refcount from isolate */ + put_page(page); + } } static void release_pte_pages(pte_t *pte, pte_t *_pte, @@ -771,8 +779,6 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy(pt } else { src_page = pte_page(pteval); copy_user_highpage(page, src_page, address, vma); - if (!PageCompound(src_page)) - release_pte_page(src_page); /* * ptl mostly unnecessary, but preempt has to * be disabled to update the per-cpu stats @@ -786,6 +792,8 @@ static void __collapse_huge_page_copy(pt pte_clear(vma->vm_mm, address, _pte); page_remove_rmap(src_page, false); spin_unlock(ptl); + if (!PageCompound(src_page)) + release_pte_page(src_page); free_page_and_swap_cache(src_page); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-thp-dont-need-drain-lru-cache-when-splitting-and-mlocking-thp.patch