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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2013-06-12 14:05:04 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-06-20 11:58:46 -0700
commitf517dfe6d161bf37a9355c86ea5cb605b06d5963 (patch)
tree610e29e1cbcd1f50888bcf131390d900f51f82b9 /arch
parent0938e135aa8513f9bc379a408d3c6c1fd24eb46a (diff)
mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge()
commit 30dad30922ccc733cfdbfe232090cf674dc374dc upstream. When we have a page fault for the address which is backed by a hugepage under migration, the kernel can't wait correctly and do busy looping on hugepage fault until the migration finishes. As a result, users who try to kick hugepage migration (via soft offlining, for example) occasionally experience long delay or soft lockup. This is because pte_offset_map_lock() can't get a correct migration entry or a correct page table lock for hugepage. This patch introduces migration_entry_wait_huge() to solve this. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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