3.11.10.3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>

commit 5a6dac3ec5f583cc8ee7bc53b5500a207c4ca433 upstream.

If the PMD is flushed then a parallel fault in handle_mm_fault() will
enter the pmd_none and do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page() path where it'll
attempt to insert a huge zero page.  This is wasteful so the patch
avoids clearing the PMD when setting pmd_numa.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 72da10d..ac2546c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1486,20 +1486,22 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t 
*pmd,
 
        if (__pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
                pmd_t entry;
-               entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
                if (!prot_numa) {
+                       entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
                        entry = pmd_modify(entry, newprot);
                        BUG_ON(pmd_write(entry));
+                       set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
                } else {
                        struct page *page = pmd_page(*pmd);
+                       entry = *pmd;
 
                        /* only check non-shared pages */
                        if (page_mapcount(page) == 1 &&
                            !pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
                                entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);
+                               set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
                        }
                }
-               set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, entry);
                spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
                ret = 1;
        }
-- 
1.8.3.2

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