From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx131.postini.com [74.125.245.131]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B68C46B0112 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:34:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from euspt1 (mailout2.w1.samsung.com [210.118.77.12]) by mailout2.w1.samsung.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0LZJ00566YDN7I@mailout2.w1.samsung.com> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:34:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ubuntu ([106.10.22.16]) by spt1.w1.samsung.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0LZJ00D9EY7NMA@spt1.w1.samsung.com> for linux-mm@kvack.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:34:35 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:30:30 +0100 From: Marek Szyprowski Subject: [PATCHv22 10/16] mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes In-reply-to: <1329507036-24362-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Message-id: <1329507036-24362-11-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <1329507036-24362-1-git-send-email-m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Cc: Michal Nazarewicz , Marek Szyprowski , Kyungmin Park , Russell King , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Daniel Walker , Mel Gorman , Arnd Bergmann , Jesse Barker , Jonathan Corbet , Shariq Hasnain , Chunsang Jeong , Dave Hansen , Benjamin Gaignard , Rob Clark , Ohad Ben-Cohen From: Mel Gorman There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to serialise watermark updates. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki --- mm/page_alloc.c | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 5d23933..444e3fd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -4976,14 +4976,7 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void) calculate_totalreserve_pages(); } -/** - * setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes - * or when memory is hot-{added|removed} - * - * Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set - * correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes. - */ -void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) +static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) { unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10); unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0; @@ -5038,6 +5031,20 @@ void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) calculate_totalreserve_pages(); } +/** + * setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes + * or when memory is hot-{added|removed} + * + * Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set + * correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes. + */ +void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) +{ + mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); + __setup_per_zone_wmarks(); + mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); +} + /* * The inactive anon list should be small enough that the VM never has to * do too much work, but large enough that each inactive page has a chance -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org