[merged mm-stable] hugetlb-evaluate-subpool-free-state-while-locked.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] hugetlb-evaluate-subpool-free-state-while-locked.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     hugetlb-evaluate-subpool-free-state-while-locked.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yichong Chen <chenyichong@uniontech.com>
Subject: hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:52:07 +0800

unlock_or_release_subpool() drops spool->lock before calling
subpool_is_free().  However, subpool_is_free() reads fields that are
updated under spool->lock, including count, used_hpages and rsv_hpages.

Keep the free-state evaluation under the same lock that protects those
fields.  The reservation accounting and kfree() calls still happen after
dropping spool->lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260721035207.1437935-1-chenyichong@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <chenyichong@uniontech.com>
Reviewed-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-evaluate-subpool-free-state-while-locked
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -141,12 +141,14 @@ static inline bool subpool_is_free(struc
 static inline void unlock_or_release_subpool(struct hugepage_subpool *spool,
 						unsigned long irq_flags)
 {
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&spool->lock, irq_flags);
+	bool free_subpool = subpool_is_free(spool);
 
 	/* If no pages are used, and no other handles to the subpool
 	 * remain, give up any reservations based on minimum size and
 	 * free the subpool */
-	if (subpool_is_free(spool)) {
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&spool->lock, irq_flags);
+
+	if (free_subpool) {
 		if (spool->min_hpages != -1)
 			hugetlb_acct_memory(spool->hstate,
 						-spool->min_hpages);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from chenyichong@uniontech.com are