Re: [PATCH v4 6/7] mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock

From: Baolin Wang

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 05:30:20 EST




On 8/11/26 8:48 PM, Nico Pache (Red Hat) wrote:
We are currently dropping the anon_vma write lock before unmapping the
PTE. Although this is safe, due to us still holding the mmap_write_lock,
its safer and less confusing to switch the order of these two operations.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@xxxxxxxxx>
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LGTM.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>