From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:26:00 +0000 (-0700) Subject: oom: convert zone_scan_lock from mutex to spinlock X-Git-Tag: v2.6.24-rc1~785 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae74138da609c576b221c765efa8b81b2365f465;p=linux-2.6 oom: convert zone_scan_lock from mutex to spinlock There's no reason to sleep in try_set_zone_oom() or clear_zonelist_oom() if the lock can't be acquired; it will be available soon enough once the zonelist scanning is done. All other threads waiting for the OOM killer are also contingent on the exiting task being able to acquire the lock in clear_zonelist_oom() so it doesn't make sense to put it to sleep. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 183a964ca6..a64decb5b1 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ int sysctl_panic_on_oom; int sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task; -static DEFINE_MUTEX(zone_scan_mutex); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(zone_scan_mutex); /* #define DEBUG */ /** @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ int try_set_zone_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist) z = zonelist->zones; - mutex_lock(&zone_scan_mutex); + spin_lock(&zone_scan_mutex); do { if (zone_is_oom_locked(*z)) { ret = 0; @@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ int try_set_zone_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist) zone_set_flag(*z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); } while (*(++z) != NULL); out: - mutex_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex); + spin_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex); return ret; } @@ -428,11 +428,11 @@ void clear_zonelist_oom(struct zonelist *zonelist) z = zonelist->zones; - mutex_lock(&zone_scan_mutex); + spin_lock(&zone_scan_mutex); do { zone_clear_flag(*z, ZONE_OOM_LOCKED); } while (*(++z) != NULL); - mutex_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex); + spin_unlock(&zone_scan_mutex); } /**