[RFC PATCH 08/28] mm/khugepaged: mark VMA as locked while collapsing a hugepage

Suren Baghdasaryan surenb at google.com
Tue Aug 30 07:25:11 AEST 2022


Protect VMA from concurrent page fault handler while modifying it in
collapse_huge_page.

Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
---
 mm/khugepaged.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 01f71786d530..030680633989 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ static void collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	if (mm_find_pmd(mm, address) != pmd)
 		goto out_up_write;
 
+	vma_mark_locked(vma);
 	anon_vma_lock_write(vma->anon_vma);
 
 	mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, NULL, mm,
-- 
2.37.2.672.g94769d06f0-goog



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list