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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2005-10-29 18:16:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-29 21:40:42 -0700
commitf412ac08c9861b4791af0145934c22f1458686da (patch)
tree5e515efa116f3968c2caa75bc691a197199313a8 /mm/memory.c
parent4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 (diff)
downloadlinux-f412ac08c9861b4791af0145934c22f1458686da.tar.gz
[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking
A couple of oddities were guarded by page_table_lock, no longer properly
guarded when that is split.

The mm_counters of file_rss and anon_rss: make those an atomic_t, or an
atomic64_t if the architecture supports it, in such a case.  Definitions by
courtesy of Christoph Lameter: who spent considerable effort on more scalable
ways of counting, but found insufficient benefit in practice.

And adding an mm with swap to the mmlist for swapoff: the list is well-
guarded by its own lock, but the list_empty check now has to be repeated
inside it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index e9ef599498b5..d68421dd64ef 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -372,7 +372,9 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
 			/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
 			if (unlikely(list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))) {
 				spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
-				list_add(&dst_mm->mmlist, &src_mm->mmlist);
+				if (list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))
+					list_add(&dst_mm->mmlist,
+						 &src_mm->mmlist);
 				spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
 			}
 		}