[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock

See the "fixup bad_range()" patch for more information, but this actually
creates a the lock to protect things making assumptions about a zone's size
staying constant at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index e8103be..4b08bc9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -16,13 +16,36 @@ void pgdat_resize_lock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
 static inline
 void pgdat_resize_unlock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
 {
-       spin_lock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
 }
 static inline
 void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
        spin_lock_init(&pgdat->node_size_lock);
 }
+/*
+ * Zone resizing functions
+ */
+static inline unsigned zone_span_seqbegin(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       return read_seqbegin(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline int zone_span_seqretry(struct zone *zone, unsigned iv)
+{
+       return read_seqretry(&zone->span_seqlock, iv);
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writelock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       write_seqlock(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writeunlock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       write_sequnlock(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline void zone_seqlock_init(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       seqlock_init(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
 #else /* ! CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
 /*
  * Stub functions for when hotplug is off
@@ -30,5 +53,17 @@ void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 static inline void pgdat_resize_lock(struct pglist_data *p, unsigned long *f) {}
 static inline void pgdat_resize_unlock(struct pglist_data *p, unsigned long *f) {}
 static inline void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {}
-#endif
+
+static inline unsigned zone_span_seqbegin(struct zone *zone)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+static inline int zone_span_seqretry(struct zone *zone, unsigned iv)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writelock(struct zone *zone) {}
+static inline void zone_span_writeunlock(struct zone *zone) {}
+static inline void zone_seqlock_init(struct zone *zone) {}
+#endif /* ! CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
 #endif /* __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H */

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e050d68..f5fa308 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/threads.h>
 #include <linux/numa.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
 /* Free memory management - zoned buddy allocator.  */
@@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ struct zone {
         * free areas of different sizes
         */
        spinlock_t              lock;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+       /* see spanned/present_pages for more description */
+       seqlock_t               span_seqlock;
+#endif
        struct free_area        free_area[MAX_ORDER];
 
 
@@ -220,6 +225,16 @@ struct zone {
        /* zone_start_pfn == zone_start_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT */
        unsigned long           zone_start_pfn;
 
+       /*
+        * zone_start_pfn, spanned_pages and present_pages are all
+        * protected by span_seqlock.  It is a seqlock because it has
+        * to be read outside of zone->lock, and it is done in the main
+        * allocator path.  But, it is written quite infrequently.
+        *
+        * The lock is declared along with zone->lock because it is
+        * frequently read in proximity to zone->lock.  It's good to
+        * give them a chance of being in the same cacheline.
+        */
        unsigned long           spanned_pages;  /* total size, including holes */
        unsigned long           present_pages;  /* amount of memory (excluding holes) */
 

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 32fad6d..817635f 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/sysctl.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/cpuset.h>
+#include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
@@ -80,12 +81,19 @@ unsigned long __initdata nr_all_pages;
 
 static int page_outside_zone_boundaries(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
 {
-       if (page_to_pfn(page) >= zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages)
-               return 1;
-       if (page_to_pfn(page) < zone->zone_start_pfn)
-               return 1;
+       int ret = 0;
+       unsigned seq;
+       unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 
-       return 0;
+       do {
+               seq = zone_span_seqbegin(zone);
+               if (pfn >= zone->zone_start_pfn + zone->spanned_pages)
+                       ret = 1;
+               else if (pfn < zone->zone_start_pfn)
+                       ret = 1;
+       } while (zone_span_seqretry(zone, seq));
+
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static int page_is_consistent(struct zone *zone, struct page *page)
@@ -1980,6 +1988,7 @@ static void __init free_area_init_core(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
                zone->name = zone_names[j];
                spin_lock_init(&zone->lock);
                spin_lock_init(&zone->lru_lock);
+               zone_seqlock_init(zone);
                zone->zone_pgdat = pgdat;
                zone->free_pages = 0;