vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock

vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock

[Johannes Weiner]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
---
 mm/vmscan.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1243,32 +1243,32 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned 
 		/* page_referenced clears PageReferenced */
 		if (page_mapping_inuse(page) &&
 		    page_referenced(page, 0, sc->mem_cgroup))
 			pgmoved++;
 
 		list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
 	}
 
+	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 	/*
 	 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as
 	 * rotated, even though they are moved to the inactive list.
 	 * This helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous
 	 * pages in get_scan_ratio.
 	 */
 	zone->recent_rotated[!!file] += pgmoved;
 
 	/*
 	 * Move the pages to the [file or anon] inactive list.
 	 */
 	pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
 
 	pgmoved = 0;
 	lru = LRU_BASE + file * LRU_FILE;
-	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
 	while (!list_empty(&l_inactive)) {
 		page = lru_to_page(&l_inactive);
 		prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_inactive, flags);
 		VM_BUG_ON(PageLRU(page));
 		SetPageLRU(page);
 		VM_BUG_ON(!PageActive(page));
 		ClearPageActive(page);
 

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Re: vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock

[Rik van Riel]

Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>

That wants a commit message.  Otherwise,

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

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Re: vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock

[KOSAKI Motohiro]

> +	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>  	/*
>  	 * Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as
>  	 * rotated, even though they are moved to the inactive list.
>  	 * This helps balance scan pressure between file and anonymous
>  	 * pages in get_scan_ratio.
>  	 */
>  	zone->recent_rotated[!!file] += pgmoved;
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Move the pages to the [file or anon] inactive list.
>  	 */
>  	pagevec_init(&pvec, 1);
>  
>  	pgmoved = 0;
>  	lru = LRU_BASE + file * LRU_FILE;
> -	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>  	while (!list_empty(&l_inactive)) {
>  		page = lru_to_page(&l_inactive);

I think this patch is needed for 2.6.28.
please CC to lkml and linus at your next post.

	Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>



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