From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit e7470ee89f003634a88e7b5e5a7b65b3025987de upstream. Discarding buffers uses a bunch of atomic operations when discarding buffers because ...... I can't think of a reason. Use a cmpxchg loop to clear all the necessary flags. In most (all?) cases this will be a single atomic operations. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: move BUFFER_FLAGS_DISCARD into the .c file] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index aeeea6529bcd..6421d6185412 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1483,16 +1483,27 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_bh_page); /* * Called when truncating a buffer on a page completely. */ + +/* Bits that are cleared during an invalidate */ +#define BUFFER_FLAGS_DISCARD \ + (1 << BH_Mapped | 1 << BH_New | 1 << BH_Req | \ + 1 << BH_Delay | 1 << BH_Unwritten) + static void discard_buffer(struct buffer_head * bh) { + unsigned long b_state, b_state_old; + lock_buffer(bh); clear_buffer_dirty(bh); bh->b_bdev = NULL; - clear_buffer_mapped(bh); - clear_buffer_req(bh); - clear_buffer_new(bh); - clear_buffer_delay(bh); - clear_buffer_unwritten(bh); + b_state = bh->b_state; + for (;;) { + b_state_old = cmpxchg(&bh->b_state, b_state, + (b_state & ~BUFFER_FLAGS_DISCARD)); + if (b_state_old == b_state) + break; + b_state = b_state_old; + } unlock_buffer(bh); } -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html