The patch titled Subject: mm: thp: don't have to lock page anymore when splitting PMD has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-thp-dont-have-to-lock-page-anymore-when-splitting-pmd.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: thp: don't have to lock page anymore when splitting PMD commit c444eb564fb1 ("mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked()") locked the page for PMD split to make mapcount stable for reuse_swap_page(), then commit 1c2f67308af4 ("mm: thp: fix MADV_REMOVE deadlock on shmem THP") reduce the scope to anonymous page only. However COW has not used mapcount to determine if the page is shared or not anymore due to the COW fixes [1] from David Hildenbrand and the reuse_swap_page() was removed as well. So PMD split doesn't have to lock the page anymore. This patch basically reverted the above two commits. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220131162940.210846-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303222014.517033-1-shy828301@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 44 +++++--------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) --- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-thp-dont-have-to-lock-page-anymore-when-splitting-pmd +++ a/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -2126,8 +2126,6 @@ void __split_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_str { spinlock_t *ptl; struct mmu_notifier_range range; - bool do_unlock_folio = false; - pmd_t _pmd; mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, vma, vma->vm_mm, address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK, @@ -2140,48 +2138,16 @@ void __split_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_str * pmd against. Otherwise we can end up replacing wrong folio. */ VM_BUG_ON(freeze && !folio); - if (folio) { - VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio_test_locked(folio)); - if (folio != page_folio(pmd_page(*pmd))) - goto out; - } + if (folio && folio != page_folio(pmd_page(*pmd))) + goto out; -repeat: - if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { - if (!folio) { - folio = page_folio(pmd_page(*pmd)); - /* - * An anonymous page must be locked, to ensure that a - * concurrent reuse_swap_page() sees stable mapcount; - * but reuse_swap_page() is not used on shmem or file, - * and page lock must not be taken when zap_pmd_range() - * calls __split_huge_pmd() while i_mmap_lock is held. - */ - if (folio_test_anon(folio)) { - if (unlikely(!folio_trylock(folio))) { - folio_get(folio); - _pmd = *pmd; - spin_unlock(ptl); - folio_lock(folio); - spin_lock(ptl); - if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, _pmd))) { - folio_unlock(folio); - folio_put(folio); - folio = NULL; - goto repeat; - } - folio_put(folio); - } - do_unlock_folio = true; - } - } - } else if (!(pmd_devmap(*pmd) || is_pmd_migration_entry(*pmd))) + if (!(pmd_devmap(*pmd) || is_pmd_migration_entry(*pmd))) goto out; + __split_huge_pmd_locked(vma, pmd, range.start, freeze); out: spin_unlock(ptl); - if (do_unlock_folio) - folio_unlock(folio); + /* * No need to double call mmu_notifier->invalidate_range() callback. * They are 3 cases to consider inside __split_huge_pmd_locked(): _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shy828301@xxxxxxxxx are