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From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>,
	Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
	WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
	Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
	Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
	kernel-team@meta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCHv6 13/17] hugetlb: Remove VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2026 15:56:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202155634.650837-14-kas@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260202155634.650837-1-kas@kernel.org>

The VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU flag triggered synchronize_rcu() calls to
prevent a race between HVO remapping and page_ref_add_unless(). The
race could occur when a speculative PFN walker tried to modify the
refcount on a struct page that was in the process of being remapped
to a fake head.

With fake heads eliminated, page_ref_add_unless() no longer needs RCU
protection.

Remove the flag and synchronize_rcu() calls.

Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
---
 mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 20 ++++----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 688764c52c72..6088fc77865c 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -47,8 +47,6 @@ struct vmemmap_remap_walk {
 #define VMEMMAP_SPLIT_NO_TLB_FLUSH	BIT(0)
 /* Skip the TLB flush when we remap the PTE */
 #define VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH	BIT(1)
-/* synchronize_rcu() to avoid writes from page_ref_add_unless() */
-#define VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU		BIT(2)
 	unsigned long		flags;
 };
 
@@ -409,9 +407,6 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 	if (!folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (flags & VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU)
-		synchronize_rcu();
-
 	vmemmap_start	= (unsigned long)&folio->page;
 	vmemmap_end	= vmemmap_start + hugetlb_vmemmap_size(h);
 
@@ -444,7 +439,7 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct hstate *h,
  */
 int hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio)
 {
-	return __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio, VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU);
+	return __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio, 0);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -467,14 +462,11 @@ long hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folios(const struct hstate *h,
 	struct folio *folio, *t_folio;
 	long restored = 0;
 	long ret = 0;
-	unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH | VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU;
+	unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH;
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(folio, t_folio, folio_list, lru) {
 		if (folio_test_hugetlb_vmemmap_optimized(folio)) {
 			ret = __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio(h, folio, flags);
-			/* only need to synchronize_rcu() once for each batch */
-			flags &= ~VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU;
-
 			if (ret)
 				break;
 			restored++;
@@ -554,8 +546,6 @@ static int __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h,
 
 	static_branch_inc(&hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key);
 
-	if (flags & VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU)
-		synchronize_rcu();
 	/*
 	 * Very Subtle
 	 * If VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH is set, TLB flushing is not performed
@@ -613,7 +603,7 @@ void hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(const struct hstate *h, struct folio *folio)
 {
 	LIST_HEAD(vmemmap_pages);
 
-	__hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(h, folio, &vmemmap_pages, VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU);
+	__hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(h, folio, &vmemmap_pages, 0);
 	free_vmemmap_page_list(&vmemmap_pages);
 }
 
@@ -641,7 +631,7 @@ static void __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h,
 	struct folio *folio;
 	int nr_to_optimize;
 	LIST_HEAD(vmemmap_pages);
-	unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH | VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU;
+	unsigned long flags = VMEMMAP_REMAP_NO_TLB_FLUSH;
 
 	nr_to_optimize = 0;
 	list_for_each_entry(folio, folio_list, lru) {
@@ -694,8 +684,6 @@ static void __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folios(struct hstate *h,
 		int ret;
 
 		ret = __hugetlb_vmemmap_optimize_folio(h, folio, &vmemmap_pages, flags);
-		/* only need to synchronize_rcu() once for each batch */
-		flags &= ~VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU;
 
 		/*
 		 * Pages to be freed may have been accumulated.  If we
-- 
2.51.2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-02 15:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-02 15:56 [PATCHv6 00/17] mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 01/17] mm: Move MAX_FOLIO_ORDER definition to mmzone.h Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-07 20:20   ` Usama Arif
2026-02-10 15:01   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 02/17] mm: Change the interface of prep_compound_tail() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04 16:14   ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-05 11:35     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-05 11:58       ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-10 15:06   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 03/17] mm: Rename the 'compound_head' field in the 'struct page' to 'compound_info' Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04 16:14   ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-10 15:09   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 04/17] mm: Move set/clear_compound_head() next to compound_head() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04 16:35   ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-10 15:10   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 05/17] riscv/mm: Align vmemmap to maximal folio size Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04 16:50   ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-05 13:50     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-05 13:54       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 06/17] LoongArch/mm: " Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04 16:56   ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-02-05 12:56     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-05 13:43       ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-05 13:52         ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-05 13:52     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-05 13:57       ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 07/17] mm: Rework compound_head() for power-of-2 sizeof(struct page) Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-05 14:09   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-07 20:19   ` Usama Arif
2026-02-10 15:40   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 08/17] mm: Make page_zonenum() use head page Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04  3:40   ` Muchun Song
2026-02-05 13:10   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-09 11:52     ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-10 15:57       ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-16 11:30         ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-15 23:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2026-02-16  9:06     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-16 11:20       ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 09/17] mm/sparse: Check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-03  3:35   ` Muchun Song
2026-02-05 13:31   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-05 13:58     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 10/17] mm/hugetlb: Refactor code around vmemmap_walk Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 11/17] mm/hugetlb: Remove fake head pages Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-03  9:50   ` Muchun Song
2026-02-06  9:14   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-06  9:36   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-07 20:16   ` Usama Arif
2026-02-07 21:25     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-07 22:50       ` Usama Arif
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 12/17] mm: Drop fake head checks Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-06  9:41   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-10 16:18   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` Kiryl Shutsemau [this message]
2026-02-06  9:42   ` [PATCHv6 13/17] hugetlb: Remove VMEMMAP_SYNCHRONIZE_RCU David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 14/17] mm/hugetlb: Remove hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_key static key Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-06  9:42   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 15/17] mm: Remove the branch from compound_head() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-06 10:23   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-10 16:42   ` Vlastimil Babka
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 16/17] hugetlb: Update vmemmap_dedup.rst Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-06 10:35   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-02 15:56 ` [PATCHv6 17/17] mm/slab: Use compound_head() in page_slab() Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-02-04  3:39   ` Muchun Song
2026-02-06 10:42   ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-02-10 16:45   ` Vlastimil Babka

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