Re: [PATCH v4 2/8] hugetlb: no need to drop hugetlb_lock to call cma_release

[David Hildenbrand]

On 06.04.21 01:00, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Now that cma_release is non-blocking and irq safe, there is no need to
> drop hugetlb_lock before calling.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   mm/hugetlb.c | 6 ------
>   1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 3c3e4baa4156..1d62f0492e7b 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1353,14 +1353,8 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
>   	set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR);
>   	set_page_refcounted(page);
>   	if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
> -		/*
> -		 * Temporarily drop the hugetlb_lock, because
> -		 * we might block in free_gigantic_page().
> -		 */
> -		spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
>   		destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
>   		free_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
> -		spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>   	} else {
>   		__free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h));
>   	}

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb