[to-be-updated] mm-khugepaged-unmap-pte-before-releasing-vma-write-lock.patch removed from -mm tree

Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.mm-commits
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-khugepaged-unmap-pte-before-releasing-vma-write-lock.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued

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From: "Nico Pache (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>
Subject: mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:25:04 -0600

We are currently dropping the anon_vma write lock before unmapping the
PTE.  Although this is safe, due to us still holding the mmap_write_lock,
its safer and less confusing to switch the order of these two operations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Cc: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Dev Jain <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Lance Yang <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Cc: Usama Arif <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 mm/khugepaged.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/khugepaged.c~mm-khugepaged-unmap-pte-before-releasing-vma-write-lock
+++ a/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -1546,10 +1546,10 @@ static enum scan_result collapse_huge_pa
 
 	result = SCAN_SUCCEED;
 out_up_write:
-	if (anon_vma_locked)
-		anon_vma_unlock_write(vma->anon_vma);
 	if (pte)
 		pte_unmap(pte);
+	if (anon_vma_locked)
+		anon_vma_unlock_write(vma->anon_vma);
 	mmap_write_unlock(mm);
 out_nolock:
 	if (folio)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-documentation-clarify-where-the-mthp-stats-live.patch
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