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Patch series "mm: free retracted page table by RCU", v3. Some mmap_lock avoidance i.e. latency reduction. Initially just for the case of collapsing shmem or file pages to THPs: the usefulness of MADV_COLLAPSE on shmem is being limited by that mmap_write_lock it currently requires. Likely to be relied upon later in other contexts e.g. freeing of empty page tables (but that's not work I'm doing). mmap_write_lock avoidance when collapsing to anon THPs? Perhaps, but again that's not work I've done: a quick attempt was not as easy as the shmem/file case. These changes (though of course not these exact patches) have been in Google's data centre kernel for three years now: we do rely upon them. This patch (of 13): Before putting them to use (several commits later), add rcu_read_lock() to pte_offset_map(), and rcu_read_unlock() to pte_unmap(). Make this a separate commit, since it risks exposing imbalances: prior commits have fixed all the known imbalances, but we may find some have been missed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7cd843a9-aa80-14f-5eb2-33427363c20@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d3b01da5-2a6-833c-6681-67a3e024a16f@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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