The patch titled
Subject: lib/show_mem.c: drop pgdat_resize_lock in show_mem()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-show_mem-drop-pgdat_resize_lock-in-show_mem.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lib/show_mem.c: drop pgdat_resize_lock in show_mem()
Function show_mem() is used to print system memory status when user
requires or fail to allocate memory. Generally, this is a best effort
information so any races with memory hotplug (or very theoretically an
early initialization) should be tolerable and the worst that could happen
is to print an imprecise node state.
Drop the resize lock because this is the only place which might hold the
lock from the interrupt context and so all other callers might use a
simple spinlock. Even though this doesn't solve any real issue it makes
the code easier to follow and tiny more effective.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181129235532.9328-1-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/lib/show_mem.c~mm-show_mem-drop-pgdat_resize_lock-in-show_mem
+++ a/lib/show_mem.c
@@ -18,10 +18,8 @@ void show_mem(unsigned int filter, nodem
show_free_areas(filter, nodemask);
for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) {
- unsigned long flags;
int zoneid;
- pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
for (zoneid = 0; zoneid < MAX_NR_ZONES; zoneid++) {
struct zone *zone = &pgdat->node_zones[zoneid];
if (!populated_zone(zone))
@@ -33,7 +31,6 @@ void show_mem(unsigned int filter, nodem
if (is_highmem_idx(zoneid))
highmem += zone->present_pages;
}
- pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
}
printk("%lu pages RAM\n", total);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-page_alloc-calculate-first_deferred_pfn-directly.patch
