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| author | Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> | 2016-12-12 16:44:23 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800 |
| commit | f9e09977671b618aeb25ddc0d4c9a84d5b5cde9d (patch) | |
| tree | a614fbf4582f0c0e7ec2a07dd9ca2502f784b33e /lib/cpu-notifier-error-inject.c | |
| parent | 5803ed292e63a1bf00722d6655d0229794607183 (diff) | |
mm: turn vmap_purge_lock into a mutex
The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This
has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects
applications like audio.
This patch replaces it with a mutex to allow preemption while holding
the lock.
Thanks to Joel Fernandes for the detailed report and analysis as well as
an earlier attempt at fixing this issue.
[1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: John Dias <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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