From: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: numa: do not clear PMD during PTE update scan

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]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/huge_memory.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN mm/huge_memory.c~mm-numa-do-not-clear-pmd-during-pte-update-scan 
mm/huge_memory.c
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c~mm-numa-do-not-clear-pmd-during-pte-update-scan
+++ a/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struc
                         */
                        if (!is_huge_zero_page(page) &&
                            !pmd_numa(*pmd)) {
-                               entry = pmdp_get_and_clear(mm, addr, pmd);
+                               entry = *pmd;
                                entry = pmd_mknuma(entry);
                                ret = HPAGE_PMD_NR;
                        }
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