mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes

There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug
and transparent hugepage support enablement.  Memory hotplug uses a
zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to
serialise watermark updates.

[a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
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Mel Gorman 2011-04-25 21:36:42 +00:00 committed by Marek Szyprowski
parent 0815f3d81d
commit cfd3da1e49

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@ -5020,14 +5020,7 @@ static void setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve(void)
calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}
/**
* setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes
* or when memory is hot-{added|removed}
*
* Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set
* correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes.
*/
void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
static void __setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
{
unsigned long pages_min = min_free_kbytes >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10);
unsigned long lowmem_pages = 0;
@ -5082,6 +5075,20 @@ void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
calculate_totalreserve_pages();
}
/**
* setup_per_zone_wmarks - called when min_free_kbytes changes
* or when memory is hot-{added|removed}
*
* Ensures that the watermark[min,low,high] values for each zone are set
* correctly with respect to min_free_kbytes.
*/
void setup_per_zone_wmarks(void)
{
mutex_lock(&zonelists_mutex);
__setup_per_zone_wmarks();
mutex_unlock(&zonelists_mutex);
}
/*
* The inactive anon list should be small enough that the VM never has to
* do too much work, but large enough that each inactive page has a chance