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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 22:51:15 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-16 01:39:40 +0100
commit46666d8ac42893f90edde7e57a11bc8749d7e89c (patch)
tree363286b0f89e1e25695770074ecd87064f80e09a /mm
parentmemcg: make oom less frequently (diff)
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revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge"
Revert commit e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 ("mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge") Bryan Donlan reports: : After testing 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 with a btrfs root filesystem, I : got the OOPS quoted below and a hard freeze shortly after boot. : Boot messages and config are attached. : : ------------[ cut here ]------------ : Kernel BUG at c05ef80d [verbose debug info unavailable] : invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP : last sysfs file: /sys/block/xvdc/size : Modules linked in: : : Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc1 #6) : EIP: 0061:[<c05ef80d>] EFLAGS: 00010087 CPU: 2 : EIP is at schedule+0x7cd/0x950 : EAX: d5aeca80 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d4cb9a40 : ESI: c12f5600 EDI: d4cb9a40 EBP: d6033fa4 ESP: d6033ef4 : DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069 : Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=d6032000 task=d6020b70 task.ti=d6032000) : Stack: : 000d85bc 00000000 000186a0 00000000 0dd11410 c0105417 c12efe00 0dc367c3 : 00000011 c0105d46 d5a5d310 deadbeef d4cb9a40 c07cc600 c05f1340 c12e0060 : deadbeef d6020b70 d6020d08 00000002 c014377d 00000000 c12f5600 00002c22 : Call Trace: : [<c0105417>] xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x17/0x30 : [<c0105d46>] check_events+0x8/0x12 : [<c05f1340>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 : [<c014377d>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x12d/0x2e0 : [<c014c4f6>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x146/0x160 : [<c0107485>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xc0 and bisected it to this commit. Let's remove it now while we have a think about the problem. Reported-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c9
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index 7e00b280648a..75f49d312e8c 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
-#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
@@ -496,7 +495,7 @@ static atomic_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end,
int sync, int force_flush)
{
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(purge_lock);
+ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(purge_lock);
LIST_HEAD(valist);
struct vmap_area *va;
int nr = 0;
@@ -507,10 +506,10 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end,
* the case that isn't actually used at the moment anyway.
*/
if (!sync && !force_flush) {
- if (!mutex_trylock(&purge_lock))
+ if (!spin_trylock(&purge_lock))
return;
} else
- mutex_lock(&purge_lock);
+ spin_lock(&purge_lock);
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(va, &vmap_area_list, list) {
@@ -542,7 +541,7 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end,
__free_vmap_area(va);
spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
}
- mutex_unlock(&purge_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&purge_lock);
}
/*