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SubjectRe: [PATCH -V7 05/14] hugetlb: avoid taking i_mmap_mutex in unmap_single_vma() for hugetlb
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> i_mmap_mutex lock was added in unmap_single_vma by 502717f4e ("hugetlb:
> fix linked list corruption in unmap_hugepage_range()") but we don't use
> page->lru in unmap_hugepage_range any more. Also the lock was taken
> higher up in the stack in some code path. That would result in deadlock.
>
> unmap_mapping_range (i_mmap_mutex)
> -> unmap_mapping_range_tree
> -> unmap_mapping_range_vma
> -> zap_page_range_single
> -> unmap_single_vma
> -> unmap_hugepage_range (i_mmap_mutex)
>

You should be able to show this with lockdep?

> For shared pagetable support for huge pages, since pagetable pages are ref
> counted we don't need any lock during huge_pmd_unshare. We do take
> i_mmap_mutex in huge_pmd_share while walking the vma_prio_tree in mapping.
> (39dde65c9940c97f ("shared page table for hugetlb page")).
>

I think this should be folded into patch 4, the code you're removing here
is just added in that function unnecessarily.


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