On 2018-11-08 14:04, Michal Hocko wrote:
On Thu 08-11-18 13:53:18, Arun KS wrote:
Now totalram_pages and managed_pages are atomic varibles. No need
of managed_page_count spinlock.
As explained earlier. Please add a motivation here. Feel free to reuse
wording from
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107103630.GF2453@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sure. Will add in next spin.
Regards,
Arun
Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 ------
mm/page_alloc.c | 5 -----
2 files changed, 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e73dc31..c71b4d9 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -428,12 +428,6 @@ struct zone {
* Write access to present_pages at runtime should be protected by
* mem_hotplug_begin/end(). Any reader who can't tolerant drift of
* present_pages should get_online_mems() to get a stable value.
- *
- * Read access to managed_pages should be safe because it's unsigned
- * long. Write access to zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages are
- * protected by managed_page_count_lock at runtime. Idealy only
- * adjust_managed_page_count() should be used instead of directly
- * touching zone->managed_pages and totalram_pages.
*/
atomic_long_t managed_pages;
unsigned long spanned_pages;
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index f8b64cc..26c5e14 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -122,9 +122,6 @@
};
EXPORT_SYMBOL(node_states);
-/* Protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(managed_page_count_lock);
-
atomic_long_t _totalram_pages __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(_totalram_pages);
unsigned long totalreserve_pages __read_mostly;
@@ -7065,14 +7062,12 @@ static int __init
cmdline_parse_movablecore(char *p)
void adjust_managed_page_count(struct page *page, long count)
{
- spin_lock(&managed_page_count_lock);
atomic_long_add(count, &page_zone(page)->managed_pages);
totalram_pages_add(count);
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
if (PageHighMem(page))
totalhigh_pages_add(count);
#endif
- spin_unlock(&managed_page_count_lock);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(adjust_managed_page_count);
--
1.9.1
