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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2016-12-12 16:44:23 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -0800 |
commit | f9e09977671b618aeb25ddc0d4c9a84d5b5cde9d (patch) | |
tree | a614fbf4582f0c0e7ec2a07dd9ca2502f784b33e /mm/vmalloc.c | |
parent | 5803ed292e63a1bf00722d6655d0229794607183 (diff) | |
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mm: turn vmap_purge_lock into a mutex
The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This
has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects
applications like audio.
This patch replaces it with a mutex to allow preemption while holding
the lock.
Thanks to Joel Fernandes for the detailed report and analysis as well as
an earlier attempt at fixing this issue.
[1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-10-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/vmalloc.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 3308007d8427..d3c1f5ee48b4 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ static atomic_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0); * by this look, but we want to avoid concurrent calls for performance * reasons and to make the pcpu_get_vm_areas more deterministic. */ -static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(vmap_purge_lock); +static DEFINE_MUTEX(vmap_purge_lock); /* for per-CPU blocks */ static void purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(void); @@ -660,9 +660,9 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end) */ static void try_purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) { - if (spin_trylock(&vmap_purge_lock)) { + if (mutex_trylock(&vmap_purge_lock)) { __purge_vmap_area_lazy(ULONG_MAX, 0); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } } @@ -671,10 +671,10 @@ static void try_purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) */ static void purge_vmap_area_lazy(void) { - spin_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(); __purge_vmap_area_lazy(ULONG_MAX, 0); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } /* @@ -1063,11 +1063,11 @@ void vm_unmap_aliases(void) rcu_read_unlock(); } - spin_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_lock(&vmap_purge_lock); purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus(); if (!__purge_vmap_area_lazy(start, end) && flush) flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end); - spin_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); + mutex_unlock(&vmap_purge_lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_unmap_aliases); |