[PATCH v2 02/10] mm/page_alloc: prevent concurrent updaters of pcp ->batch and ->high

From: Cody P Schafer
Date: Tue Apr 09 2013 - 19:31:31 EST


Because we are going to rely upon a careful transision between old and
new ->high and ->batch values using memory barriers and will remove
stop_machine(), we need to prevent multiple updaters from interweaving
their memory writes.

Add a simple mutex to protect both update loops.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5877cf0..d259599 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@
#include <asm/div64.h>
#include "internal.h"

+/* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node);
EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(numa_node);
@@ -5491,6 +5494,8 @@ int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
if (!write || (ret < 0))
return ret;
+
+ mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
unsigned long high;
@@ -5499,6 +5504,7 @@ int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(ctl_table *table, int write,
per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu), high);
}
}
+ mutex_unlock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
return 0;
}

@@ -6012,7 +6018,9 @@ static int __meminit __zone_pcp_update(void *data)

void __meminit zone_pcp_update(struct zone *zone)
{
+ mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
stop_machine(__zone_pcp_update, zone, NULL);
+ mutex_unlock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
}
#endif

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1.8.2

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