pstore: Make spinlock per zone instead of global
authorJoel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:34:00 +0000 (00:34 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Aug 2017 01:59:39 +0000 (18:59 -0700)
commitd97aff4f9770582a14461ed57c0985a7288d3480
tree4e81c323a3669df333002acfa76ffec74556acbd
parent0f94b36de37c73bdb3affe7352acac819082d360
pstore: Make spinlock per zone instead of global

commit 109704492ef637956265ec2eb72ae7b3b39eb6f4 upstream.

Currently pstore has a global spinlock for all zones. Since the zones
are independent and modify different areas of memory, there's no need
to have a global lock, so we should use a per-zone lock as introduced
here. Also, when ramoops's ftrace use-case has a FTRACE_PER_CPU flag
introduced later, which splits the ftrace memory area into a single zone
per CPU, it will eliminate the need for locking. In preparation for this,
make the locking optional.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
[kees: updated commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/pstore/ram_core.c
include/linux/pstore_ram.h