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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-05-24 17:12:04 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:17 -0700 |
commit | 97a894136f29802da19a15541de3c019e1ca147e (patch) | |
tree | 1fd3f92ba92a37d5d8527a1f41458091d0a944dc /include/linux/fs.h | |
parent | e4c70a6629f9c74c4b0de258a3951890e9047c82 (diff) | |
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mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak
Hugh says:
"The only significant loser, I think, would be page reclaim (when
concurrent with truncation): could spin for a long time waiting for
the i_mmap_mutex it expects would soon be dropped? "
Counter points:
- cpu contention makes the spin stop (need_resched())
- zap pages should be freeing pages at a higher rate than reclaim
ever can
I think the simplification of the truncate code is definitely worth it.
Effectively reverts: 2aa15890f3c ("mm: prevent concurrent
unmap_mapping_range() on the same inode") and takes out the code that
caused its problem.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/fs.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index cdf9495df204..5d2c86bdf5ba 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -635,7 +635,6 @@ struct address_space { struct prio_tree_root i_mmap; /* tree of private and shared mappings */ struct list_head i_mmap_nonlinear;/*list VM_NONLINEAR mappings */ spinlock_t i_mmap_lock; /* protect tree, count, list */ - unsigned int truncate_count; /* Cover race condition with truncate */ unsigned long nrpages; /* number of total pages */ pgoff_t writeback_index;/* writeback starts here */ const struct address_space_operations *a_ops; /* methods */ @@ -644,7 +643,6 @@ struct address_space { spinlock_t private_lock; /* for use by the address_space */ struct list_head private_list; /* ditto */ struct address_space *assoc_mapping; /* ditto */ - struct mutex unmap_mutex; /* to protect unmapping */ } __attribute__((aligned(sizeof(long)))); /* * On most architectures that alignment is already the case; but |