From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Hao Zhang <hao_zhang_kdev@163.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: thp: unlock i_mmap before releasing split folios
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:17:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alYoARy80Vb-X_nj@thinkstation> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1fc81157-824c-4296-ac5f-e8965f64597e@kernel.org>
On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 01:29:56PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > Any opinions?
>
> I guess a deferred iput through some workqueue is not an option?
Hm. This feels like a dirty hack to me.
> I'd prefer if we could keep folio splitting working even when the passed page is
> EOF.
Can you think of legitimate use-case?
I will get rid of hwpoison case. It has no good reason to lock tail page
in the first place.
The only other case I can see is race with truncate. Loosing to it
should be fine to split caller.
--
Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 12:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 7:13 [PATCH] mm: thp: unlock i_mmap before releasing split folios Hao Zhang
2026-07-10 11:16 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-10 15:56 ` Hao Zhang
2026-07-10 17:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2026-07-10 17:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-14 2:12 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-14 2:15 ` Zi Yan
2026-07-14 3:44 ` Baolin Wang
2026-07-14 10:26 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-07-14 11:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-14 12:17 ` Kiryl Shutsemau [this message]
2026-07-14 12:34 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-07-14 9:33 ` Hao Zhang
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