mm/khugepaged: unmap pte before releasing vma write lock

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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/20260811-khugepaged_pte_refactor-v4-6-ddac39d61c4a@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache (Red Hat) <nico.pache@linux.dev>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Nico Pache (Red Hat) 2026-08-11 06:48:38 -06:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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