Commit c1fe9209 authored by Muchun Song's avatar Muchun Song Committed by Zheng Zengkai
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mm: hugetlb: defer freeing of HugeTLB pages

mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.14
commit b65d4adb
category: feature
bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I3ZCW9
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b65d4adbc0f0d4619f61ee9d8126bc5005b78802

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In the subsequent patch, we should allocate the vmemmap pages when freeing
a HugeTLB page.  But update_and_free_page() can be called under any
context, so we cannot use GFP_KERNEL to allocate vmemmap pages.  However,
we can defer the actual freeing in a kworker to prevent from using
GFP_ATOMIC to allocate the vmemmap pages.

The __update_and_free_page() is where the call to allocate vmemmmap pages
will be inserted.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510030027.56044-6-songmuchun@bytedance.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@amazon.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Conflicts:
	mm/hugetlb.c
Signed-off-by: default avatarChen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNanyong Sun <sunnanyong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>
parent b06ce787
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