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 3.8 094/166] mm: numa: defer TLB flush for THP migration as long as possible Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:51:48 -0800 Message-Id: <1389822780-4729-95-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 b0943d61b8fa420180f92f64ef67662b4f6cc493 upstream. THP migration can fail for a variety of reasons. Avoid flushing the TLB to deal with THP migration races until the copy is ready to start. 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 | 7 ------- mm/migrate.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index b43f35a..21ca328 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1379,13 +1379,6 @@ int do_huge_pmd_numa_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, } /* - * The page_table_lock above provides a memory barrier - * with change_protection_range. - */ - if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm)) - flush_tlb_range(vma, haddr, haddr + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); - - /* * Migrate the THP to the requested node, returns with page unlocked * and pmd_numa cleared. */ diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c index 8e117b7..8edfa00 100644 --- a/mm/migrate.c +++ b/mm/migrate.c @@ -1715,6 +1715,9 @@ int migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, goto out_fail; } + if (mm_tlb_flush_pending(mm)) + flush_tlb_range(vma, mmun_start, mmun_end); + /* Prepare a page as a migration target */ __set_page_locked(new_page); SetPageSwapBacked(new_page); -- 1.8.3.2