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[PATCH] mm: simplify vmscan vs release refcounting

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The VM has an interesting race where a page refcount can drop to zero, but it
is still on the LRU lists for a short time.  This was solved by testing a 0->1
refcount transition when picking up pages from the LRU, and dropping the
refcount in that case.

Instead, use atomic_add_unless to ensure we never pick up a 0 refcount page
from the LRU, thus a 0 refcount page will never have its refcount elevated
until it is allocated again.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin
2006-03-22 00:08:03 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f205b2fe62
commit 7c8ee9a863
2 changed files with 22 additions and 22 deletions
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@@ -1083,29 +1083,26 @@ static int isolate_lru_pages(int nr_to_scan, struct list_head *src,
int scan = 0;
while (scan++ < nr_to_scan && !list_empty(src)) {
struct list_head *target;
page = lru_to_page(src);
prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, src, flags);
BUG_ON(!PageLRU(page));
list_del(&page->lru);
if (unlikely(get_page_testone(page))) {
target = src;
if (likely(get_page_unless_zero(page))) {
/*
* It is being freed elsewhere
* Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're
* sure the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the
* page release code relies on it.
*/
__put_page(page);
list_add(&page->lru, src);
continue;
}
ClearPageLRU(page);
target = dst;
nr_taken++;
} /* else it is being freed elsewhere */
/*
* Be careful not to clear PageLRU until after we're sure
* the page is not being freed elsewhere -- the page release
* code relies on it.
*/
ClearPageLRU(page);
list_add(&page->lru, dst);
nr_taken++;
list_add(&page->lru, target);
}
*scanned = scan;