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

From: Lance Yang

Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 00:40:59 EST



On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 06:48:38AM -0600, 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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Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@xxxxxxxxx>