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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2013-02-23 04:35:06 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-24 05:50:19 +0400
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ksm: get_ksm_page locked
In some places where get_ksm_page() is used, we need the page to be locked. When KSM migration is fully enabled, we shall want that to make sure that the page just acquired cannot be migrated beneath us (raised page count is only effective when there is serialization to make sure migration notices). Whereas when navigating through the stable tree, we certainly do not want to lock each node (raised page count is enough to guarantee the memcmps, even if page is migrated to another node). Since we're about to add another use case, add the locked argument to get_ksm_page() now. Hmm, what's that rcu_read_lock() about? Complete misunderstanding, I really got the wrong end of the stick on that! There's a configuration in which page_cache_get_speculative() can do something cheaper than get_page_unless_zero(), relying on its caller's rcu_read_lock() to have disabled preemption for it. There's no need for rcu_read_lock() around get_page_unless_zero() (and mapping checks) here. Cut out that silliness before making this any harder to understand. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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