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authorLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>2008-04-28 02:13:13 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:24 -0700
commitaab0b1029f0843756b68e0ed3ca983685bf43ed6 (patch)
tree95a0546c908a1c7a3bf1353f433ff1464faf68db /mm
parent45c4745af381851b0406d8e4db99e62e265691c2 (diff)
downloadlinux-aab0b1029f0843756b68e0ed3ca983685bf43ed6.tar.bz2
mempolicy: mark shared policies for unref
As part of yet another rework of mempolicy reference counting, we want to be able to identify shared policies efficiently, because they have an extra ref taken on lookup that needs to be removed when we're finished using the policy. Note: the extra ref is required because the policies are shared between tasks/processes and can be changed/freed by one task while another task is using them--e.g., for page allocation. Building on David Rientjes mempolicy "mode flags" enhancement, this patch indicates a "shared" policy by setting a new MPOL_F_SHARED flag in the flags member of the struct mempolicy added by David. MPOL_F_SHARED, and any future "internal mode flags" are reserved from bit zero up, as they will never be passed in the upper bits of the mode argument of a mempolicy API. I set the MPOL_F_SHARED flag when the policy is installed in the shared policy rb-tree. Don't need/want to clear the flag when removing from the tree as the mempolicy is freed [unref'd] internally to the sp_delete() function. However, a task could hold another reference on this mempolicy from a prior lookup. We need the MPOL_F_SHARED flag to stay put so that any tasks holding a ref will unref, eventually freeing, the mempolicy. A later patch in this series will introduce a function to conditionally unref [mpol_free] a policy. The MPOL_F_SHARED flag is one reason [currently the only reason] to unref/free a policy via the conditional free. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 5e7eea2dc8b4..78b18a60b9b2 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1750,6 +1750,7 @@ static struct sp_node *sp_alloc(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
n->start = start;
n->end = end;
mpol_get(pol);
+ pol->flags |= MPOL_F_SHARED; /* for unref */
n->policy = pol;
return n;
}