From: Hugh Dickins Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:49:11 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Remove nid_lock from alloc_fresh_huge_page X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~353 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ed5cb2b73d0c4165c0504c95454fade0c0bf3d9;p=linux-2.6 Remove nid_lock from alloc_fresh_huge_page The fix to that race in alloc_fresh_huge_page() which could give an illegal node ID did not need nid_lock at all: the fix was to replace static int nid by static int prev_nid and do the work on local int nid. nid_lock did make sure that racers strictly roundrobin the nodes, but that's not something we need to enforce strictly. Kill nid_lock. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 15fc7b0007..2d7611cf27 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -104,15 +104,19 @@ static int alloc_fresh_huge_page(void) { static int prev_nid; struct page *page; - static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nid_lock); int nid; - spin_lock(&nid_lock); + /* + * Copy static prev_nid to local nid, work on that, then copy it + * back to prev_nid afterwards: otherwise there's a window in which + * a racer might pass invalid nid MAX_NUMNODES to alloc_pages_node. + * But we don't need to use a spin_lock here: it really doesn't + * matter if occasionally a racer chooses the same nid as we do. + */ nid = next_node(prev_nid, node_online_map); if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES) nid = first_node(node_online_map); prev_nid = nid; - spin_unlock(&nid_lock); page = alloc_pages_node(nid, htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOWARN, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);