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| author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2013-11-14 14:30:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-11-15 09:32:14 +0900 |
| commit | e1f56c89b040134add93f686931cc266541d239a (patch) | |
| tree | 36efea76d1803cca3e2a7716850d872db70afd8f /kernel/fork.c | |
| parent | 57c1ffcefb5acb3c8b5f8436c325a6bdbd8e9c78 (diff) | |
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mm: convert mm->nr_ptes to atomic_long_t
With split page table lock for PMD level we can't hold mm->page_table_lock
while updating nr_ptes.
Let's convert it to atomic_long_t to avoid races.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/fork.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index f6d11fc67f72..e2520756e005 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) mm->flags = (current->mm) ? (current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK) : default_dump_filter; mm->core_state = NULL; - mm->nr_ptes = 0; + atomic_long_set(&mm->nr_ptes, 0); memset(&mm->rss_stat, 0, sizeof(mm->rss_stat)); spin_lock_init(&mm->page_table_lock); mm_init_aio(mm); |