From 5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:08:36 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan 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 Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- 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 51f0693..420826e 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd, */ if (!is_huge_zero_page(page) && !pmd_numa(*pmd)) { - entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd); + entry = *pmd; entry = pmd_mknuma(entry); ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR; } -- 2.7.4