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authorQi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>2021-11-05 13:38:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-06 13:30:36 -0700
commited33b5a677da33d6e8f959879bb61e9791b80354 (patch)
treef65df0646bca5b9924293c4d662bbaaaafd0f423 /block
parent03c4f20454e0231d2cdec4373841a3a25cf4efed (diff)
downloadlinux-ed33b5a677da33d6e8f959879bb61e9791b80354.tar.gz
mm: remove redundant smp_wmb()
The smp_wmb() which is in the __pte_alloc() is used to ensure all ptes
setup is visible before the pte is made visible to other CPUs by being
put into page tables.  We only need this when the pte is actually
populated, so move it to pmd_install().  __pte_alloc_kernel(),
__p4d_alloc(), __pud_alloc() and __pmd_alloc() are similar to this case.

We can also defer smp_wmb() to the place where the pmd entry is really
populated by preallocated pte.  There are two kinds of user of
preallocated pte, one is filemap & finish_fault(), another is THP.  The
former does not need another smp_wmb() because the smp_wmb() has been
done by pmd_install().  Fortunately, the latter also does not need
another smp_wmb() because there is already a smp_wmb() before populating
the new pte when the THP uses a preallocated pte to split a huge pmd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210901102722.47686-3-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mika Penttila <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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