From 57386734e87cd9cb33ca5dccfaf9dbf64846a069 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:10:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: shmem: avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp shmem_getpage_gfp uses an atomic operation to set the SwapBacked field before it's even added to the LRU or visible. This is unnecessary as what could it possible race against? Use an unlocked variant. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 1 + mm/shmem.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index d1fe1a7610476..4d4b39ab2341e 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ PAGEFLAG(Pinned, pinned) TESTSCFLAG(Pinned, pinned) /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(SavePinned, savepinned); /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) + __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __PAGEFLAG(SlobFree, slob_free) diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 9f70e02111c6a..f47fb38c48899 100644 --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ repeat: goto decused; } - SetPageSwapBacked(page); + __SetPageSwapBacked(page); __set_page_locked(page); error = mem_cgroup_charge_file(page, current->mm, gfp & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK); -- 2.39.5