On February 04, 2017 7:33 AM Shaohua Li wrote: 
> @@ -1404,6 +1401,8 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, 
> struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>               set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, orig_pmd);
>               tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry(tlb, pmd, addr);
>       }
> +
> +     mark_page_lazyfree(page);
>       ret = true;
>  out:
>       spin_unlock(ptl);

<snipped>

> -void deactivate_page(struct page *page)
> -{
> -     if (PageLRU(page) && PageActive(page) && !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> -             struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_deactivate_pvecs);
> +void mark_page_lazyfree(struct page *page)
> + {
> +     if (PageLRU(page) && PageAnon(page) && PageSwapBacked(page) &&
> +         !PageUnevictable(page)) {
> +             struct pagevec *pvec = &get_cpu_var(lru_lazyfree_pvecs);
> 
>               get_page(page);
>               if (!pagevec_add(pvec, page) || PageCompound(page))
> -                     pagevec_lru_move_fn(pvec, lru_deactivate_fn, NULL);
> -             put_cpu_var(lru_deactivate_pvecs);
> +                     pagevec_lru_move_fn(pvec, lru_lazyfree_fn, NULL);
> +             put_cpu_var(lru_lazyfree_pvecs);
>       }
>  }

You are not adding it but would you please try to fix or avoid flipping
preempt count with page table lock hold?

thanks
Hillf


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