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    mm: use a dedicated lock to protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages · c3d5f5f0
    Jiang Liu authored
    
    
    Currently lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug() are used to
    protect totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages.  Other than the memory
    hotplug driver, totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages may also be
    modified at runtime by other drivers, such as Xen balloon,
    virtio_balloon etc.  For those cases, memory hotplug lock is a little
    too heavy, so introduce a dedicated lock to protect totalram_pages and
    zone->managed_pages.
    
    Now we have a simplified locking rules totalram_pages and
    zone->managed_pages as:
    
    1) no locking for read accesses because they are unsigned long.
    2) no locking for write accesses at boot time in single-threaded context.
    3) serialize write accesses at runtime by acquiring the dedicated
       managed_page_count_lock.
    
    Also adjust zone->managed_pages when freeing reserved pages into the
    buddy system, to keep totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages in
    consistence.
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't export adjust_managed_page_count to modules (for now)]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
    Cc: <sworddragon2@aol.com>
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
    Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
    Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
    Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
    Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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