On Wed 13-06-12 22:07:06, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

Michal Hocko [off-list ref] writes:

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On Wed 13-06-12 15:57:23, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <redacted>

Use a mmu_gather instead of a temporary linked list for accumulating
pages when we unmap a hugepage range

Sorry for coming up with the comment that late but you owe us an
explanation _why_ you are doing this.

I assume that this fixes a real problem when we take i_mmap_mutex
already up in 
unmap_mapping_range
  mutex_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_mutex);
  unmap_mapping_range_tree | unmap_mapping_range_list 
    unmap_mapping_range_vma
      zap_page_range_single
        unmap_single_vma
	  unmap_hugepage_range
	    mutex_lock(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_mutex);

And that this should have been marked for stable as well (I haven't
checked when this has been introduced).

Switch to mmu_gather is to get rid of the use of page->lru so that i can use it for
active list.

So can we get this to the changelog please?

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