Basically the same race as with numa balancing in change_huge_pmd(), but a bit simpler to mitigate: we don't need to preserve dirty/young flags here due to MADV_FREE functionality.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> --- mm/huge_memory.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c index bb2b3646bd78..324217c31ec9 100644 --- a/mm/huge_memory.c +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c @@ -1566,8 +1566,6 @@ bool madvise_free_huge_pmd(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, deactivate_page(page); if (pmd_young(orig_pmd) || pmd_dirty(orig_pmd)) { - orig_pmd = pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full(tlb->mm, addr, pmd, - tlb->fullmm); orig_pmd = pmd_mkold(orig_pmd); orig_pmd = pmd_mkclean(orig_pmd); -- 2.11.0