[PATCH rfc 2/2] mm: hugetlb: don't drop hugetlb_lock around cma_release() call

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Fri Oct 16 2020 - 18:53:16 EST


cma_release() now is a non-blocking function, so there is no more need
to drop hugetlb_lock to call it.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index fe76f8fd5a73..c8c892b1cabc 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -1312,14 +1312,8 @@ static void update_and_free_page(struct hstate *h, struct page *page)
set_compound_page_dtor(page, NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR);
set_page_refcounted(page);
if (hstate_is_gigantic(h)) {
- /*
- * Temporarily drop the hugetlb_lock, because
- * we might block in free_gigantic_page().
- */
- spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock);
destroy_compound_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
free_gigantic_page(page, huge_page_order(h));
- spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
} else {
__free_pages(page, huge_page_order(h));
}
--
2.26.2