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Lee Schermerhorn 52cd3b0740 mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again]
After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
fast paths.  In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
unref for interleave policies.

A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.

This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
simplifies the code.  Maybe I'll get it right this time.

See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.

Summary:

Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
policies.  So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
counting added by my previous attempt.  It then unrefs only shared policies
when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
helper function introduced by this patch.

Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
containing just the policy.  read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
this case.  To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy.  This copy occurs before reading
a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
here.

I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
conditional free.  The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-arm mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-avr32 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-blackfin [Blackfin] arch: add include/boot .gitignore files 2008-04-25 08:29:11 +08:00
asm-cris mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-frv mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-generic bitops: use __fls for fls64 on 64-bit archs 2008-04-26 19:21:16 +02:00
asm-h8300 Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-ia64 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m32r mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68k mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-mips mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-mn10300 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-parisc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-powerpc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-ppc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-s390 s390: implement pte special bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-sh mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-sparc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-sparc64 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-um mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-v850 Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-x86 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-xtensa mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes: Export generic setkey 2008-04-21 10:19:34 +08:00
keys KEYS: Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h. 2008-04-21 22:43:55 +00:00
linux mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again] 2008-04-28 08:58:24 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (7677): saa7134: Add/fix Beholder entries 2008-04-24 14:09:46 -03:00
mtd UBI: make ubi-header.h local 2008-04-17 11:31:58 +03:00
net IPv6 support for NFS server export caches 2008-04-23 16:13:36 -04:00
pcmcia
rdma IB: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:30 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] rework scsi_target allocation 2008-04-22 15:16:31 -05:00
sound [ALSA] Define MPU401 registers in sound/mpu401_uart.h 2008-04-24 12:38:22 +02:00
video
xen xen: add balloon driver 2008-04-24 23:57:33 +02:00
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