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Code in prep_compound_gigantic_page waits for a rcu grace period if it notices a temporarily inflated ref count on a tail page. This was due to the identified potential race with speculative page cache references which could only last for a rcu grace period. This is overly complicated as this situation is VERY unlikely to ever happen. Instead, just quickly return an error. Also, only print a warning in prep_compound_gigantic_page instead of multiple callers. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809184832.18342-2-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.