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authorHaicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>2010-05-24 14:32:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-25 08:07:02 -0700
commit4eaf3f64397c3db3c5785eee508270d62a9fabd9 (patch)
treebfd986a7e974876755ea6fe0de394199c68e2e36 /include
parent1f522509c77a5dea8dc384b735314f03908a6415 (diff)
downloadlinux-4eaf3f64397c3db3c5785eee508270d62a9fabd9.tar.gz
mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone
Add global mutex zonelists_mutex to fix the possible race:

     CPU0                                  CPU1                    CPU2
(1) zone->present_pages += online_pages;
(2)                                       build_all_zonelists();
(3)                                                               alloc_page();
(4)                                                               free_page();
(5) build_all_zonelists();
(6)   __build_all_zonelists();
(7)     zone->pageset = alloc_percpu();

In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad
things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node
is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory
to fail the memory allocations in step (7).

Besides, atomic operation ensures alloc_percpu() in step (7) will never fail
since there is a new fresh memory block added in step(6).

[haicheng.li@linux.intel.com: hold zonelists_mutex when build_all_zonelists]
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index a367ed5bb3fe..0fa491326c4a 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ typedef struct pglist_data {
 
 #include <linux/memory_hotplug.h>
 
+extern struct mutex zonelists_mutex;
 void get_zone_counts(unsigned long *active, unsigned long *inactive,
 			unsigned long *free);
 void build_all_zonelists(void *data);