[RFC PATCH 4/4] mm/percpu: stop unmapping the CPU that failed to map
From: Hao Ge
Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 02:40:33 EST
__pcpu_map_pages() clears the PTEs it installed when it fails, so
pcpu_map_pages() only has to tear down the CPUs it mapped before
the failing one.
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <hao.ge@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/percpu-vm.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/percpu-vm.c b/mm/percpu-vm.c
index 509d8901835c..59d3a336a6bd 100644
--- a/mm/percpu-vm.c
+++ b/mm/percpu-vm.c
@@ -252,10 +252,11 @@ static int pcpu_map_pages(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk, struct page **pages,
return 0;
err:
for_each_possible_cpu(tcpu) {
- __pcpu_unmap_pages(pcpu_chunk_addr(chunk, tcpu, page_start),
- page_end - page_start);
+ /* The failing CPU's partial mapping undoes itself */
if (tcpu == cpu)
break;
+ __pcpu_unmap_pages(pcpu_chunk_addr(chunk, tcpu, page_start),
+ page_end - page_start);
}
pcpu_post_unmap_tlb_flush(chunk, page_start, page_end);
return err;
--
2.25.1