The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects applications like audio. This patch replaces it with a mutex to allow preemption while holding the lock. Thanks to Joel Fernandes for the detailed report and analysis as well as an earlier attempt at fixing this issue. [1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59 Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 0e7f523..23d6797 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static atomic_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0); * by this look, but we want to avoid concurrent calls for performance * reasons and to make the pcpu_get_vm_areas more deterministic. */ -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vmap_purge_lock); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(vmap_purge_lock); /* for per-CPU blocks */ static void purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(void); @@ -660,9 +660,9 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) */ static void try_purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) { - if (spin_trylock(&vmap_purge_lock)) { + if (mutex_trylock(&vmap_purge_lock)) { __purge_vmap_area_lazy(ULONG_MAX, 0); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } } @@ -671,10 +671,10 @@ static void try_purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) */ static void purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) { - spin_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(); __purge_vmap_area_lazy(ULONG_MAX, 0); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } /* @@ -1063,11 +1063,11 @@ void vm_unmap_aliases(void) rcu_read_unlock(); } - spin_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(); if (!__purge_vmap_area_lazy(start, end) && flush) flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_unmap_aliases); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>