aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/mm/ksm.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>2010-08-09 17:18:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-09 20:44:55 -0700
commit012f18004da33ba672e3c60838cc4898126174d3 (patch)
tree990382f9f8c0d885463ac9195b8e9a18043f716d /mm/ksm.c
parent5c341ee1dfc8fe69d66b1c8b19e463c6d7201ae1 (diff)
mm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma
Always (and only) lock the root (oldest) anon_vma whenever we do something in an anon_vma. The recently introduced anon_vma scalability is due to the rmap code scanning only the VMAs that need to be scanned. Many common operations still took the anon_vma lock on the root anon_vma, so always taking that lock is not expected to introduce any scalability issues. However, always taking the same lock does mean we only need to take one lock, which means rmap_walk on pages from any anon_vma in the vma is excluded from occurring during an munmap, expand_stack or other operation that needs to exclude rmap_walk and similar functions. Also add the proper locking to vma_adjust. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index eb9f6806ed5..da6037c261f 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static void drop_anon_vma(struct rmap_item *rmap_item)
{
struct anon_vma *anon_vma = rmap_item->anon_vma;
- if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&anon_vma->external_refcount, &anon_vma->lock)) {
+ if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&anon_vma->external_refcount, &anon_vma->root->lock)) {
int empty = list_empty(&anon_vma->head);
anon_vma_unlock(anon_vma);
if (empty)