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authorArun KS <[email protected]>2018-12-28 00:34:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2018-12-28 12:11:47 -0800
commit9705bea5f833f4fc21d5bef5fce7348427f76ea4 (patch)
tree37604aa5b680736eb176283f970e1c1d7d27bbf3 /mm/util.c
parent3d6357de8aa09e1966770dc1171c72679946464f (diff)
mm: convert zone->managed_pages to atomic variable
totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it. Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a store tear. This patch converts zone->managed_pages. Subsequent patches will convert totalram_panges, totalhigh_pages and eventually managed_page_count_lock will be removed. Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating things. It was discussed in length here, https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 So it seemes better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic, with preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing as a bonus. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arun KS <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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