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authorJiang Liu <[email protected]>2013-07-03 15:03:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2013-07-03 16:07:33 -0700
commitc3d5f5f0c2bc4eabeaf49f1a21e1aeb965246cd2 (patch)
treeec3b59b33102150b20c04de0b43d25dcea692b68
parent7b4b2a0d6c8500350784beb83a6a55e60ea3bea3 (diff)
mm: use a dedicated lock to protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages
Currently lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug() are used to protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages. Other than the memory hotplug driver, totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages may also be modified at runtime by other drivers, such as Xen balloon, virtio_balloon etc. For those cases, memory hotplug lock is a little too heavy, so introduce a dedicated lock to protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages. Now we have a simplified locking rules totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages as: 1) no locking for read accesses because they are unsigned long. 2) no locking for write accesses at boot time in single-threaded context. 3) serialize write accesses at runtime by acquiring the dedicated managed_page_count_lock. Also adjust zone->managed_pages when freeing reserved pages into the buddy system, to keep totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages in consistence. [[email protected]: don't export adjust_managed_page_count to modules (for now)] Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> Cc: Jianguo Wu <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]> Cc: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Cc: Tang Chen <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Wen Congyang <[email protected]> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <[email protected]> Cc: Yinghai Lu <[email protected]> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h6
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h14
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c11
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 083cc0ba2384..4310f80ce956 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1313,6 +1313,7 @@ extern void free_initmem(void);
*/
extern unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end,
int poison, char *s);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
/*
* Free a highmem page into the buddy system, adjusting totalhigh_pages
@@ -1321,10 +1322,7 @@ extern unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end,
extern void free_highmem_page(struct page *page);
#endif
-static inline void adjust_managed_page_count(struct page *page, long count)
-{
- totalram_pages += count;
-}
+extern void adjust_managed_page_count(struct page *page, long count);
/* Free the reserved page into the buddy system, so it gets managed. */
static inline void __free_reserved_page(struct page *page)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e511f9429f1e..09d381b71fd8 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -474,10 +474,16 @@ struct zone {
* frequently read in proximity to zone->lock. It's good to
* give them a chance of being in the same cacheline.
*
- * Write access to present_pages and managed_pages at runtime should
- * be protected by lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug().
- * Any reader who can't tolerant drift of present_pages and
- * managed_pages should hold memory hotplug lock to get a stable value.
+ * Write access to present_pages at runtime should be protected by
+ * lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug(). Any reader who can't
+ * tolerant drift of present_pages should hold memory hotplug lock to
+ * get a stable value.
+ *
+ * Read access to managed_pages should be safe because it's unsigned
+ * long. Write access to zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages are
+ * protected by managed_page_count_lock at runtime. Idealy only
+ * adjust_managed_page_count() should be used instead of directly
+ * touching zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages.
*/
unsigned long spanned_pages;
unsigned long present_pages;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 22438eba00b6..93f292a60cb0 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ nodemask_t node_states[NR_NODE_STATES] __read_mostly = {
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_states);
+/* Protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages */
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(managed_page_count_lock);
+
unsigned long totalram_pages __read_mostly;
unsigned long totalreserve_pages __read_mostly;
/*
@@ -5206,6 +5209,14 @@ early_param("movablecore", cmdline_parse_movablecore);
#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP */
+void adjust_managed_page_count(struct page *page, long count)
+{
+ spin_lock(&managed_page_count_lock);
+ page_zone(page)->managed_pages += count;
+ totalram_pages += count;
+ spin_unlock(&managed_page_count_lock);
+}
+
unsigned long free_reserved_area(void *start, void *end, int poison, char *s)
{
void *pos;