The patch titled Subject: hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was hugetlb-no-need-to-drop-hugetlb_lock-to-call-cma_release.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release Now that cma_release is non-blocking and irq safe, there is no need to drop hugetlb_lock before calling. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210331034148.112624-3-mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@xxxxxxxx> Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-no-need-to-drop-hugetlb_lock-to-call-cma_release +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -1354,14 +1354,8 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR); set_page_refcounted(page); if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) { - /* - * Temporarily drop the hugetlb_lock, because - * we might block in free_gigantic_page(). - */ - spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h)); free_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h)); - spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock); } else { __free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h)); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx are hugetlb-add-per-hstate-mutex-to-synchronize-user-adjustments.patch hugetlb-create-remove_hugetlb_page-to-separate-functionality.patch hugetlb-call-update_and_free_page-without-hugetlb_lock.patch hugetlb-change-free_pool_huge_page-to-remove_pool_huge_page.patch hugetlb-make-free_huge_page-irq-safe.patch hugetlb-make-free_huge_page-irq-safe-fix.patch hugetlb-add-lockdep_assert_held-calls-for-hugetlb_lock.patch