The patch below does not apply to the 3.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:08:36 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan
If the PMD is flushed then a parallel fault in handle_mm_fault() will
enter the pmd_none and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() path where it'll
attempt to insert a huge zero page. This is wasteful so the patch
avoids clearing the PMD when setting pmd_numa.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 51f069303ab9..420826efda48 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
*/
if (!is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
!pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
- entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+ entry = *pmd;
entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);
ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
}
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