From 8312034f3604bc0339c40545c538116f4ddad152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joonsoo Kim Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:21:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm, hugetlb: grab a page_table_lock after page_cache_release We don't need to grab a page_table_lock when we try to release a page. So, defer to grab a page_table_lock. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Aneesh Kumar Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: David Gibson Cc: Wanpeng Li Cc: Hillf Danton Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/hugetlb.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index f6347ec4fd0a..5bf6468a8862 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -2647,10 +2647,11 @@ retry_avoidcopy: } spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end); - /* Caller expects lock to be held */ - spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); page_cache_release(new_page); page_cache_release(old_page); + + /* Caller expects lock to be held */ + spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); return 0; } -- 2.20.1