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authorArun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>2018-12-28 11:34:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-12-28 23:11:47 +0300
commit3d6357de8aa09e1966770dc1171c72679946464f (patch)
treea24bb2f8795ea4927c1ff64d5f5f00398bee925d /kernel/fork.c
parentfecd4a50baaebf6bde7f9e0b88fef13ffe5d98a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-3d6357de8aa09e1966770dc1171c72679946464f.tar.xz
mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function
Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic", v5. This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. 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. 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 It seemes better to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic. With the change, preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus. This patch (of 4): This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. Please note that re-reading the value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to unexpected behavior. There are no known bugs as a result of the current code but it is better to prevent from them in principle. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index e2a5156bc9c3..8617a326e9f5 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -744,15 +744,16 @@ void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
static void set_max_threads(unsigned int max_threads_suggested)
{
u64 threads;
+ unsigned long nr_pages = totalram_pages;
/*
* The number of threads shall be limited such that the thread
* structures may only consume a small part of the available memory.
*/
- if (fls64(totalram_pages) + fls64(PAGE_SIZE) > 64)
+ if (fls64(nr_pages) + fls64(PAGE_SIZE) > 64)
threads = MAX_THREADS;
else
- threads = div64_u64((u64) totalram_pages * (u64) PAGE_SIZE,
+ threads = div64_u64((u64) nr_pages * (u64) PAGE_SIZE,
(u64) THREAD_SIZE * 8UL);
if (threads > max_threads_suggested)