Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:33:21 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [48/75] mm: hugetlb: fix non-atomic enqueue of huge page |
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3.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
commit b0365c8d0cb6e79eb5f21418ae61ab511f31b575 upstream.
If a huge page is enqueued under the protection of hugetlb_lock, then the operation is atomic and safe.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -901,7 +901,6 @@ retry: h->resv_huge_pages += delta; ret = 0; - spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); /* Free the needed pages to the hugetlb pool */ list_for_each_entry_safe(page, tmp, &surplus_list, lru) { if ((--needed) < 0) @@ -915,6 +914,7 @@ retry: VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page)); enqueue_huge_page(h, page); } + spin_unlock(&hugetlb_lock); /* Free unnecessary surplus pages to the buddy allocator */ free:
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