From 85046579bde15e532983438f86b36856e358f417 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:34:19 -0800 Subject: SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible section scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked. It does this with pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here. A cond_resched() every PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good. However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks. There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it. So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling. Remove the recently added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan. Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock(). Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable. The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED. The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let inode eviction deal with them. Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used), more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Shaohua Li Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michel Lespinasse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/shmem.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/shmem.c') diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index feead1943d9..4aaa53abe30 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1068,13 +1068,6 @@ int shmem_lock(struct file *file, int lock, struct user_struct *user) user_shm_unlock(inode->i_size, user); info->flags &= ~VM_LOCKED; mapping_clear_unevictable(file->f_mapping); - /* - * Ensure that a racing putback_lru_page() can see - * the pages of this mapping are evictable when we - * skip them due to !PageLRU during the scan. - */ - smp_mb__after_clear_bit(); - scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(file->f_mapping); } retval = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3