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mm/swap_slots.c: don't disable preemption while taking the per-CPU cache

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get_cpu_var() disables preemption and returns the per-CPU version of the
variable.  Disabling preemption is useful to ensure atomic access to the
variable within the critical section.

In this case however, after the per-CPU version of the variable is
obtained the ->free_lock is acquired.  For that reason it seems the raw
accessor could be used.  It only seems that ->slots_ret should be
retested (because with disabled preemption this variable can not be set
to NULL otherwise).

This popped up during PREEMPT-RT testing because it tries to take
spinlocks in a preempt disabled section.  In RT, spinlocks can sleep.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623114755.2ebxdysacvgxzott@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 2017-07-10 15:49:29 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent b002529d25
commit f07e0f849a
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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@ -273,11 +273,11 @@ int free_swap_slot(swp_entry_t entry)
{
struct swap_slots_cache *cache;
cache = &get_cpu_var(swp_slots);
cache = raw_cpu_ptr(&swp_slots);
if (use_swap_slot_cache && cache->slots_ret) {
spin_lock_irq(&cache->free_lock);
/* Swap slots cache may be deactivated before acquiring lock */
if (!use_swap_slot_cache) {
if (!use_swap_slot_cache || !cache->slots_ret) {
spin_unlock_irq(&cache->free_lock);
goto direct_free;
}
@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ int free_swap_slot(swp_entry_t entry)
direct_free:
swapcache_free_entries(&entry, 1);
}
put_cpu_var(swp_slots);
return 0;
}