+ mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     mm: use lockless radix-tree probe
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe.patch

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Subject: mm: use lockless radix-tree probe
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>

Probing pages and radix_tree_tagged are lockless operations with the lockless
radix-tree.  Convert these users to RCU locking rather than using tree_lock.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/page-writeback.c |    8 +++-----
 mm/readahead.c      |    6 ++----
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/page-writeback.c~mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe mm/page-writeback.c
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c~mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe
+++ a/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -1022,17 +1022,15 @@ int test_set_page_writeback(struct page 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(test_set_page_writeback);
 
 /*
- * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marged with the
+ * Return true if any of the pages in the mapping are marked with the
  * passed tag.
  */
 int mapping_tagged(struct address_space *mapping, int tag)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
 	int ret;
-
-	read_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	ret = radix_tree_tagged(&mapping->page_tree, tag);
-	read_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mapping_tagged);
diff -puN mm/readahead.c~mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe mm/readahead.c
--- a/mm/readahead.c~mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe
+++ a/mm/readahead.c
@@ -148,20 +148,19 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address
 	/*
 	 * Preallocate as many pages as we will need.
 	 */
-	read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 	for (page_idx = 0; page_idx < nr_to_read; page_idx++) {
 		pgoff_t page_offset = offset + page_idx;
 
 		if (page_offset > end_index)
 			break;
 
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		page = radix_tree_lookup(&mapping->page_tree, page_offset);
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		if (page)
 			continue;
 
-		read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 		page = page_cache_alloc_cold(mapping);
-		read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 		if (!page)
 			break;
 		page->index = page_offset;
@@ -170,7 +169,6 @@ __do_page_cache_readahead(struct address
 			SetPageReadahead(page);
 		ret++;
 	}
-	read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Now start the IO.  We ignore I/O errors - if the page is not
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are

remove-zero_page.patch
mm-use-lockless-radix-tree-probe.patch
mm-improve-find_lock_page.patch
mm-clarify-__add_to_swap_cache-locking.patch
radix-tree-use-indirect-bit.patch
mm-revert-kernel_ds-buffered-write-optimisation.patch
revert-81b0c8713385ce1b1b9058e916edcf9561ad76d6.patch
revert-6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83.patch
mm-clean-up-buffered-write-code.patch
mm-debug-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-trim-more-holes.patch
mm-buffered-write-cleanup.patch
mm-write-iovec-cleanup.patch
mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks.patch
mm-buffered-write-iterator.patch
fs-fix-data-loss-on-error.patch
fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops.patch
introduce-write_begin-write_end-aops-important-fix.patch
mm-restore-kernel_ds-optimisations.patch
implement-simple-fs-aops.patch
block_dev-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext2-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext2-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
ext3-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext3-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
ext4-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ext4-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
xfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fs-new-cont-helpers.patch
fat-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hfsplus-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hpfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
bfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
qnx4-convert-to-new-aops.patch
reiserfs-use-generic-write.patch
reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
reiserfs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
reiserfs-use-generic_cont_expand_simple.patch
with-reiserfs-no-longer-using-the-weird-generic_cont_expand-remove-it-completely.patch
nfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
smb-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fuse-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hostfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
hostfs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
jffs2-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ufs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
ufs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
udf-convert-to-new-aops.patch
udf-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
sysv-convert-to-new-aops.patch
sysv-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
minix-convert-to-new-aops.patch
minix-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
jfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fs-adfs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fs-affs-convert-to-new-aops.patch
affs-convert-to-new-aops-fix.patch
ocfs2-convert-to-new-aops.patch
fs-remove-some-aop_truncated_page.patch
fs-remove-some-aop_truncated_page-fix.patch
fs-reiserfs-cleanups.patch
fs-introduce-write_begin-write_end-and-perform_write-aops-revoke.patch
reiser4-fix-for-new-aops-patches.patch

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