In preparation to switch vmstat shepherd to flush per-CPU counters remotely, use a cmpxchg loop instead of a pair of read/write instructions. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmstat.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/vmstat.c @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ static int refresh_cpu_vm_stats(void) } /* - * Fold the data for an offline cpu into the global array. + * Fold the data for a cpu into the global array. * There cannot be any access by the offline cpu and therefore * synchronization is simplified. */ @@ -906,8 +906,9 @@ void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu) if (pzstats->vm_stat_diff[i]) { int v; - v = pzstats->vm_stat_diff[i]; - pzstats->vm_stat_diff[i] = 0; + do { + v = pzstats->vm_stat_diff[i]; + } while (!try_cmpxchg(&pzstats->vm_stat_diff[i], &v, 0)); atomic_long_add(v, &zone->vm_stat[i]); global_zone_diff[i] += v; } @@ -917,8 +918,9 @@ void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu) if (pzstats->vm_numa_event[i]) { unsigned long v; - v = pzstats->vm_numa_event[i]; - pzstats->vm_numa_event[i] = 0; + do { + v = pzstats->vm_numa_event[i]; + } while (!try_cmpxchg(&pzstats->vm_numa_event[i], &v, 0)); zone_numa_event_add(v, zone, i); } } @@ -934,8 +936,9 @@ void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu) if (p->vm_node_stat_diff[i]) { int v; - v = p->vm_node_stat_diff[i]; - p->vm_node_stat_diff[i] = 0; + do { + v = p->vm_node_stat_diff[i]; + } while (!try_cmpxchg(&p->vm_node_stat_diff[i], &v, 0)); atomic_long_add(v, &pgdat->vm_stat[i]); global_node_diff[i] += v; }