The patch titled
Remove nid_lock from alloc_fresh_huge_page
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
remove-nid_lock-from-alloc_fresh_huge_page.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Remove nid_lock from alloc_fresh_huge_page
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
The fix to that race in alloc_fresh_huge_page() which could give an illegal
node ID did not need nid_lock at all: the fix was to replace static int nid
by static int prev_nid and do the work on local int nid. nid_lock did make
sure that racers strictly roundrobin the nodes, but that's not something we
need to enforce strictly. Kill nid_lock.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/hugetlb.c~remove-nid_lock-from-alloc_fresh_huge_page mm/hugetlb.c
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~remove-nid_lock-from-alloc_fresh_huge_page
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -104,15 +104,19 @@ static int alloc_fresh_huge_page(void)
{
static int prev_nid;
struct page *page;
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nid_lock);
int nid;
- spin_lock(&nid_lock);
+ /*
+ * Copy static prev_nid to local nid, work on that, then copy it
+ * back to prev_nid afterwards: otherwise there's a window in which
+ * a racer might pass invalid nid MAX_NUMNODES to alloc_pages_node.
+ * But we don't need to use a spin_lock here: it really doesn't
+ * matter if occasionally a racer chooses the same nid as we do.
+ */
nid = next_node(prev_nid, node_online_map);
if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
nid = first_node(node_online_map);
prev_nid = nid;
- spin_unlock(&nid_lock);
page = alloc_pages_node(nid, htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOWARN,
HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
pa-risc-use-page-allocator-instead-of-slab-allocator.patch
introduce-write_begin-write_end-aops-important-fix.patch
reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
hostfs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
affs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
ext2-reservations.patch
fix-for-ext2-reservation.patch
ext2-balloc-use-io_error-label.patch
add-__gfp_movable-for-callers-to-flag-allocations-from-high-memory-that-may-be-migrated-swap-prefetch.patch
prio_tree-debugging-patch.patch
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