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Revert48ec833b78("Revert "mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem"") to reinstatec8475d144a("mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem"): the unmap_mapping_range family of functions do the unmapping of user pages (ultimately via zap_page_range_single) without modifying the interval tree itself, and unmapping races are necessarily guarded by page table lock, thus the i_mmap_rwsem should be shared in unmap_mapping_pages() and unmap_mapping_folio(). Commit48ec833b78was intended as a short-term measure, allowing the other shared lock changes into 3.19 final, before investigating three trinity crashes, one of which had been bisected to commitc8475d144a: [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/14/342 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5466142C.60100@oracle.com/ [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/22/213 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/549832E2.8060609@oracle.com/ [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/9/741 https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5487ACC5.1010002@oracle.com/ Two of those were Bad page states: free_pages_prepare() found PG_mlocked still set - almost certain to have been fixed by 4.4 commitb87537d9e2("mm: rmap use pte lock not mmap_sem to set PageMlocked"). The NULL deref on rwsem in [2]: unclear, only happened once, not bisected toc8475d144a. No change to the i_mmap_lock_write() around __unmap_hugepage_range_final() in unmap_single_vma(): IIRC that's a special usage, helping to serialize hugetlbfs page table sharing, not to be dabbled with lightly. No change to other uses of i_mmap_lock_write() by hugetlbfs. I am not aware of any significant gains from the concurrency allowed by this commit: it is submitted more to resolve an ancient misunderstanding. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e4a5e356-6c87-47b2-3ce8-c2a95ae84e20@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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