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author | Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org> | 2018-12-28 00:34:20 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -0800 |
commit | 3d6357de8aa09e1966770dc1171c72679946464f (patch) | |
tree | a24bb2f8795ea4927c1ff64d5f5f00398bee925d /arch | |
parent | fecd4a50baaebf6bde7f9e0b88fef13ffe5d98a1 (diff) | |
download | linux-3d6357de8aa09e1966770dc1171c72679946464f.tar.bz2 |
mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function
Patch series "mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed
pages to atomic", v5.
This series converts totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.
totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates are
protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care about it.
Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers potentially seeing a
store tear.
Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was complicating
things. It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785 It seemes better
to remove the lock and convert variables to atomic. With the change,
preventing poteintial store-to-read tearing comes as a bonus.
This patch (of 4):
This is in preparation to a later patch which converts totalram_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables. Please note that re-reading the
value might lead to a different value and as such it could lead to
unexpected behavior. There are no known bugs as a result of the current
code but it is better to prevent from them in principle.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1542090790-21750-2-git-send-email-arunks@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c index 1067469ba2ea..2da209687a22 100644 --- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c +++ b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void __init mem_init(void) /* this will put all low memory onto the freelists */ memblock_free_all(); max_low_pfn = totalram_pages; - max_pfn = totalram_pages; + max_pfn = max_low_pfn; mem_init_print_info(NULL); kmalloc_ok = 1; } diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c index 2637ff09d6a0..168fa272cc3e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c @@ -434,9 +434,10 @@ static ssize_t microcode_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *ppos) { ssize_t ret = -EINVAL; + unsigned long nr_pages = totalram_pages; - if ((len >> PAGE_SHIFT) > totalram_pages) { - pr_err("too much data (max %ld pages)\n", totalram_pages); + if ((len >> PAGE_SHIFT) > nr_pages) { + pr_err("too much data (max %ld pages)\n", nr_pages); return ret; } |