This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: buffer: do not use unnecessary atomic operations when discarding buffers
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e7470ee89f003634a88e7b5e5a7b65b3025987de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:29 -0700
Subject: fs: buffer: do not use unnecessary atomic operations when discarding buffers
From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/buffer.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -1485,16 +1485,27 @@ 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);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mgorman@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-jump-labels-to-avoid-checking-number_of_cpusets.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-treat-a-zone-that-cannot-be-used-for-dirty-pages-as-full.patch
queue-3.14/mm-non-atomically-mark-page-accessed-during-page-cache-allocation-where-possible.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-convert-hot-cold-parameter-and-immediate-callers-to-bool.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-zone-id-check-if-pages-are-buddies.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-only-check-the-alloc-flags-and-gfp_mask-for-dirty-once.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-do-not-update-zlc-unless-the-zlc-is-active.patch
queue-3.14/mm-swap.c-clean-up-lru_cache_add-functions.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-take-the-alloc_no_watermark-check-out-of-the-fast-path.patch
queue-3.14/fs-buffer-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-discarding-buffers.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-atomic-operations-when-releasing-pages.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-reduce-number-of-times-page_to_pfn-is-called.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-use-unsigned-int-for-order-in-more-places.patch
queue-3.14/mm-shmem-avoid-atomic-operation-during-shmem_getpage_gfp.patch
queue-3.14/mm-do-not-use-unnecessary-atomic-operations-when-adding-pages-to-the-lru.patch
queue-3.14/include-linux-jump_label.h-expose-the-reference-count.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-calculate-classzone_idx-once-from-the.patch
queue-3.14/mm-page_alloc-lookup-pageblock-migratetype-with-irqs-enabled-during-free.patch
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