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authorJianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>2014-06-05 03:09:51 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-05 03:54:07 +0400
commitbea04b073292b2acb522c7c1aa67a4fc58151530 (patch)
tree9d4efd221e0fa4b649cc6fbcfa19baa22cb3b3be /mm/internal.h
parente9ade569910a82614ff5f2c2cea2b65a8d785da4 (diff)
downloadlinux-bea04b073292b2acb522c7c1aa67a4fc58151530.tar.xz
mm: use the light version __mod_zone_page_state in mlocked_vma_newpage()
mlocked_vma_newpage() is called with pte lock held(a spinlock), which implies preemtion disabled, and the vm stat counter is not modified from interrupt context, so we need not use an irq-safe mod_zone_page_state() here, using a light-weight version __mod_zone_page_state() would be OK. This patch also documents __mod_zone_page_state() and some of its callsites. The comment above __mod_zone_page_state() is from Hugh Dickins, and acked by Christoph. Most credits to Hugh and Christoph for the clarification on the usage of the __mod_zone_page_state(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/internal.h')
-rw-r--r--mm/internal.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index a25424a24e0c..e067984bafa0 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -201,7 +201,12 @@ static inline int mlocked_vma_newpage(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
return 0;
if (!TestSetPageMlocked(page)) {
- mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), NR_MLOCK,
+ /*
+ * We use the irq-unsafe __mod_zone_page_stat because this
+ * counter is not modified from interrupt context, and the pte
+ * lock is held(spinlock), which implies preemption disabled.
+ */
+ __mod_zone_page_state(page_zone(page), NR_MLOCK,
hpage_nr_pages(page));
count_vm_event(UNEVICTABLE_PGMLOCKED);
}