From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to serialise watermark updates. [a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@xxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 216e575..8b19caa 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5020,14 +5020,7 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void) calculate_totalreserve_pages(); } -/** - * setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes - * or when memory is hot-{added|removed} - * - * Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set - * correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes. - */ -void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) +static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) { unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10); unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0; @@ -5082,6 +5075,20 @@ void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) calculate_totalreserve_pages(); } +/** + * setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes + * or when memory is hot-{added|removed} + * + * Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set + * correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes. + */ +void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void) +{ + mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex); + __setup_per_zone_wmarks(); + mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex); +} + /* * The inactive anon list should be small enough that the VM never has to * do too much work, but large enough that each inactive page has a chance -- 1.7.1.569.g6f426 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html