Linus Torvalds dd34739c03 mm: avoid anon_vma_chain allocation under anon_vma lock ... Hugh Dickins points out that lockdep (correctly) spots a potential deadlock on the anon_vma lock, because we now do a GFP_KERNEL allocation of anon_vma_chain while doing anon_vma_clone(). The problem is that page reclaim will want to take the anon_vma lock of any anonymous pages that it will try to reclaim. So re-organize the code in anon_vma_clone() slightly: first do just a GFP_NOWAIT allocation, which will usually work fine. But if that fails, let's just drop the lock and re-do the allocation, now with GFP_KERNEL. End result: not only do we avoid the locking problem, this also ends up getting better concurrency in case the allocation does need to block. Tim Chen reports that with all these anon_vma locking tweaks, we're now almost back up to the spinlock performance. Reported-and-tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>		2011-06-17 19:24:11 -07:00
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Kconfig	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
Kconfig.debug	mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning	2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
Makefile	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
backing-dev.c	backing-dev: Kill set but not used var in bdi_debug_stats_show()	2011-05-20 21:23:37 +02:00
bootmem.c	crash_dump: export is_kdump_kernel to modules, consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn	2011-03-23 19:47:19 -07:00
bounce.c	bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec()	2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
cleancache.c	mm: cleancache core ops functions and config	2011-05-26 10:01:36 -06:00
compaction.c	mm: compaction: abort compaction if too many pages are isolated and caller is asynchronous V2	2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c	generic debug pagealloc	2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c	mm/dmapool.c: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in dma_pool_alloc()	2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
fadvise.c	readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM	2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c	more conservative S_NOSEC handling	2011-06-03 18:24:58 -04:00
filemap_xip.c	mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex	2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
fremap.c	mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'	2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
highmem.c	mm,x86: fix kmap_atomic_push vs ioremap_32.c	2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
huge_memory.c	mm: remove khugepaged double thp vmstat update with CONFIG_NUMA=n	2011-06-15 20:03:58 -07:00
hugetlb.c	mm: fix negative commitlimit when gigantic hugepages are allocated	2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c	Fix common misspellings	2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
init-mm.c	mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t	2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
internal.h	mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly	2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
kmemcheck.c	kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c	kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc	2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c	kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get	2011-05-19 17:35:28 +01:00
ksm.c	ksm: fix NULL pointer dereference in scan_get_next_rmap_item()	2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
maccess.c	maccess,probe_kernel: Make write/read src const void *	2011-05-25 19:56:23 -04:00
madvise.c	thp: khugepaged: make khugepaged aware about madvise	2011-01-13 17:32:47 -08:00
memblock.c	mm/memblock: properly handle overlaps and fix error path	2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
memcontrol.c	memcg: avoid percpu cached charge draining at softlimit	2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
memory-failure.c	mm/memory-failure.c: fix page isolated count mismatch	2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
memory.c	mm: fix wrong kunmap_atomic() pointer	2011-06-15 20:04:00 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c	mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix building of node hotplug zonelist	2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
mempolicy.c	mm: proc: move show_numa_map() to fs/proc/task_mmu.c	2011-05-25 08:39:34 -07:00
mempool.c	mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool	2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c	migrate: don't account swapcache as shmem	2011-06-16 15:01:24 -07:00
mincore.c	thp: mincore transparent hugepage support	2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mlock.c	mm: don't access vm_flags as 'int'	2011-05-26 09:20:31 -07:00
mm_init.c	mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore	2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c	mm: get rid of the most spurious find_vma_prev() users	2011-06-16 00:35:09 -07:00
mmu_context.c	exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss	2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c	thp: mmu_notifier_test_young	2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c	mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low	2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c	thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support	2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c	mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex	2011-05-25 08:39:18 -07:00
msync.c	sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions	2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c	memblock/nobootmem: remove unneeded code from alloc_bootmem_node_high()	2011-05-25 08:39:31 -07:00
nommu.c	nommu: add page alignment to mmap	2011-05-25 08:39:38 -07:00
oom_kill.c	oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj	2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
page-writeback.c	Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block	2011-03-24 10:16:26 -07:00
page_alloc.c	Revert "mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured"	2011-06-02 06:11:24 +09:00
page_cgroup.c	memcg: fix init_page_cgroup nid with sparsemem	2011-06-15 20:04:01 -07:00
page_io.c	block: kill off REQ_UNPLUG	2011-03-10 08:52:27 +01:00
page_isolation.c	mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init	2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
pagewalk.c	pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary	2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c	percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator	2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c	mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas	2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c	Merge branch 'for-2.6.40' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu	2011-05-24 11:53:42 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c	mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build	2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c	sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage	2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
quicklist.c	include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h	2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c	readahead: readahead page allocations are OK to fail	2011-05-25 08:39:25 -07:00
rmap.c	mm: avoid anon_vma_chain allocation under anon_vma lock	2011-06-17 19:24:11 -07:00
shmem.c	tmpfs: fix race between truncate and writepage	2011-05-28 16:09:26 -07:00
slab.c	SLAB: Record actual last user of freed objects.	2011-06-03 19:33:50 +03:00
slob.c	mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name()	2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
slub.c	slub: always align cpu_slab to honor cmpxchg_double requirement	2011-06-03 19:33:49 +03:00
sparse-vmemmap.c	tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos	2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c	Fix common misspellings	2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
swap.c	mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention	2011-05-25 08:39:37 -07:00
swap_state.c	block: remove per-queue plugging	2011-03-10 08:52:07 +01:00
swapfile.c	oom: replace PF_OOM_ORIGIN with toggling oom_score_adj	2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
thrash.c	vmscan: implement swap token priority aging	2011-06-15 20:03:59 -07:00
truncate.c	mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache	2011-05-26 10:01:43 -06:00
util.c	mm: nommu: sort mm->mmap list properly	2011-05-25 08:39:05 -07:00
vmalloc.c	Merge branch 'upstream/tidy-xen-mmu-2.6.39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen	2011-05-26 19:01:15 -07:00
vmscan.c	mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin	2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
vmstat.c	mm, mem-hotplug: update pcp->stat_threshold when memory hotplug occur	2011-05-25 08:39:09 -07:00