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* [PATCH v5 0/4] mm: convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and managed pages to atomic
@ 2018-11-13  6:33 ` Arun KS
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Arun KS @ 2018-11-13  6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: keescook, khlebnikov, minchan, getarunks, gregkh, akpm, mhocko,
	vbabka, linux-kernel, linux-mm, vatsa, willy, Arun KS

This series convert totalram_pages, totalhigh_pages and
zone->managed_pages to atomic variables.

The patch was comiple tested on x86(x86_64_defconfig & i386_defconfig)
on 4.20-rc2. And memory hotplug tested on arm64, but on an older version
of kernel.

totalram_pages, zone->managed_pages and totalhigh_pages updates
are protected by managed_page_count_lock, but readers never care
about it. Convert these variables to atomic to avoid readers
potentially seeing a store tear.

Main motivation was that managed_page_count_lock handling was
complicating things. It was discussed in length here,
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/995739/#1181785
It seemes better to remove the lock and convert variables
to atomic. With the change, preventing poteintial store-to-read
tearing comes as a bonus.

Changes in v5:
- totalram_pgs renamed to nr_pages.
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1011293/#1194248

Changes in v4:
- Fixed kbuild test robot error.
- Modified changelog.
- Rebased to 4.20.-rc2

Changes in v3:
- Fixed kbuild test robot errors.
- Modified changelogs to be more clear.
- EXPORT_SYMBOL for _totalram_pages and _totalhigh_pages.

Arun KS (4):
  mm: reference totalram_pages and managed_pages once per function
  mm: convert zone->managed_pages to atomic variable
  mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic
  mm: Remove managed_page_count spinlock

 arch/csky/mm/init.c                           |  4 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/cmm.c          | 10 ++--
 arch/s390/mm/init.c                           |  2 +-
 arch/um/kernel/mem.c                          |  4 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c          |  5 +-
 drivers/char/agp/backend.c                    |  4 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_crat.c         |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c               |  2 +-
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/i915_gem_gtt.c |  4 +-
 drivers/hv/hv_balloon.c                       | 19 +++----
 drivers/md/dm-bufio.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-crypt.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-integrity.c                     |  2 +-
 drivers/md/dm-stats.c                         |  2 +-
 drivers/media/platform/mtk-vpu/mtk_vpu.c      |  2 +-
 drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c                    |  2 +-
 drivers/parisc/ccio-dma.c                     |  4 +-
 drivers/parisc/sba_iommu.c                    |  4 +-
 drivers/staging/android/ion/ion_system_heap.c |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c                 |  6 +--
 fs/ceph/super.h                               |  2 +-
 fs/file_table.c                               |  7 +--
 fs/fuse/inode.c                               |  2 +-
 fs/nfs/write.c                                |  2 +-
 fs/nfsd/nfscache.c                            |  2 +-
 fs/ntfs/malloc.h                              |  2 +-
 fs/proc/base.c                                |  2 +-
 include/linux/highmem.h                       | 28 ++++++++++-
 include/linux/mm.h                            | 27 +++++++++-
 include/linux/mmzone.h                        | 15 +++---
 include/linux/swap.h                          |  1 -
 kernel/fork.c                                 |  5 +-
 kernel/kexec_core.c                           |  5 +-
 kernel/power/snapshot.c                       |  2 +-
 lib/show_mem.c                                |  2 +-
 mm/highmem.c                                  |  5 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c                              |  2 +-
 mm/kasan/quarantine.c                         |  2 +-
 mm/memblock.c                                 |  6 +--
 mm/mm_init.c                                  |  2 +-
 mm/oom_kill.c                                 |  2 +-
 mm/page_alloc.c                               | 72 +++++++++++++--------------
 mm/shmem.c                                    |  7 +--
 mm/slab.c                                     |  2 +-
 mm/swap.c                                     |  2 +-
 mm/util.c                                     |  2 +-
 mm/vmalloc.c                                  |  4 +-
 mm/vmstat.c                                   |  4 +-
 mm/workingset.c                               |  2 +-
 mm/zswap.c                                    |  4 +-
 net/dccp/proto.c                              |  7 +--
 net/decnet/dn_route.c                         |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c                        |  2 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c             |  7 +--
 net/netfilter/xt_hashlimit.c                  |  5 +-
 net/sctp/protocol.c                           |  7 +--
 security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c            |  2 +-
 57 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.1


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2018-11-13  6:33   ` Arun KS
2018-11-13 14:52   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-14 19:20   ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13  6:33 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] mm: convert zone->managed_pages to atomic variable Arun KS
2018-11-13  6:33   ` Arun KS
2018-11-13 14:55   ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-14 19:21   ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13  6:33 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic Arun KS
2018-11-13  6:33   ` Arun KS
2018-11-14 19:23   ` Pavel Tatashin
2018-11-13  6:33 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: Remove managed_page_count spinlock Arun KS
2018-11-13  6:33   ` Arun KS
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