mm: add preempt points into __purge_vmap_area_lazy()
authorJoel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:44:26 +0000 (16:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:08 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
Use cond_resched_lock to avoid holding the vmap_area_lock for a
potentially long time and thus creating bad latencies for various
workloads.

[hch: split from a larger patch by Joel, wrote the crappy changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-11-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/vmalloc.c

index d3c1f5e..a558438 100644 (file)
@@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
        struct llist_node *valist;
        struct vmap_area *va;
        struct vmap_area *n_va;
-       int nr = 0;
+       bool do_free = false;
 
        lockdep_assert_held(&vmap_purge_lock);
 
@@ -638,18 +638,22 @@ static bool __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
                        start = va->va_start;
                if (va->va_end > end)
                        end = va->va_end;
-               nr += (va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+               do_free = true;
        }
 
-       if (!nr)
+       if (!do_free)
                return false;
 
-       atomic_sub(nr, &vmap_lazy_nr);
        flush_tlb_kernel_range(start, end);
 
        spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
-       llist_for_each_entry_safe(va, n_va, valist, purge_list)
+       llist_for_each_entry_safe(va, n_va, valist, purge_list) {
+               int nr = (va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
                __free_vmap_area(va);
+               atomic_sub(nr, &vmap_lazy_nr);
+               cond_resched_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
+       }
        spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
        return true;
 }