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mm, thp: drop page_table_lock to uncharge memcg pages

mm->page_table_lock is hotly contested for page fault tests and isn't
necessary to do mem_cgroup_uncharge_page() in do_huge_pmd_wp_page().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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David Rientjes and committed by
Linus Torvalds
6f60b69d 096a7cf4

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mm/huge_memory.c
··· 973 973 spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock); 974 974 put_page(page); 975 975 if (unlikely(!pmd_same(*pmd, orig_pmd))) { 976 + spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock); 976 977 mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(new_page); 977 978 put_page(new_page); 979 + goto out; 978 980 } else { 979 981 pmd_t entry; 980 982 VM_BUG_ON(!PageHead(page));