From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Mel Gorman , Alex Thorlton , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 086/166] mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:51:40 -0800 Message-Id: <1389822780-4729-87-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1389822780-4729-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1389822780-4729-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.8.13.16 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mel Gorman commit 5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433 upstream. 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 Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Alex Thorlton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index a72d5ca..5d7dc7c 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, /* only check non-shared pages */ if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 && !pmd_numa(*pmd)) { - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); + entry = *pmd; entry = pmd_mknuma(entry); ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR; } -- 1.8.3.2