Commit 831bc31a authored by Baolin Wang's avatar Baolin Wang Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: hugetlb: improve the handling of hugetlb allocation failure for freed or in-use hugetlb

alloc_and_dissolve_hugetlb_folio() preallocates a new hugetlb page before
it takes hugetlb_lock.  In 3 out of 4 cases the page is not really used
and therefore the newly allocated page is just freed right away.  This is
wasteful and it might cause pre-mature failures in those cases.

Address that by moving the allocation down to the only case (hugetlb page
is really in the free pages pool).  We need to drop hugetlb_lock to do so
and therefore need to recheck the page state after regaining it.

The patch is more of a cleanup than an actual fix to an existing problem. 
There are no known reports about pre-mature failures.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/62890fd60b1ecd5bf1cdc476c973f60fe37aa0cb.1707181934.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMuchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 055267fe
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