From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail190.messagelabs.com (mail190.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 131C16007F3 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:21:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by pwi8 with SMTP id 8so1591395pwi.14 for ; Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C42B98E.4020208@vflare.org> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:51:34 +0530 From: Nitin Gupta Reply-To: ngupta@vflare.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] Use xvmalloc to store compressed chunks References: <1279283870-18549-1-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <1279283870-18549-8-git-send-email-ngupta@vflare.org> <4C42B2E4.4040504@cs.helsinki.fi> In-Reply-To: <4C42B2E4.4040504@cs.helsinki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , Greg KH , Dan Magenheimer , Rik van Riel , Avi Kivity , Christoph Hellwig , Minchan Kim , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , linux-mm , linux-kernel List-ID: On 07/18/2010 01:23 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Nitin Gupta wrote: >> @@ -528,17 +581,32 @@ static int zcache_store_page(struct zcache_inode_rb *znode, >> goto out; >> } >> >> - dest_data = kmap_atomic(zpage, KM_USER0); >> + local_irq_save(flags); > > Does xv_malloc() required interrupts to be disabled? If so, why doesn't the function do it by itself? > xvmalloc itself doesn't require disabling interrupts but zcache needs that since otherwise, we can have deadlock between xvmalloc pool lock and mapping->tree_lock which zcache_put_page() is called. OTOH, zram does not require this disabling of interrupts. So, interrupts are disable separately for zcache case. Thanks, Nitin -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org