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authorLecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>2020-12-14 19:13:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 12:13:46 -0800
commita4efc174b382fcdb62e2d90d39e78a274a975e38 (patch)
tree2f5fcc927698c6b47cbac57eaaed34e8dd0907b3 /mm
parentd85c6db4cc61bd8299f68534bf7ea2f717f49539 (diff)
mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock
The cma_mutex which protects alloc_contig_range() was first appeared in commit 7ee793a62fa8c ("cma: Remove potential deadlock situation"), at that time, there is no guarantee the behavior of concurrency inside alloc_contig_range(). After commit 2c7452a075d4db2dc ("mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated") > However, two subsystems (CMA and gigantic > huge pages for example) could attempt operations on the same range. If > this happens, one thread may 'undo' the work another thread is doing. > This can result in pageblocks being incorrectly left marked as > MIGRATE_ISOLATE and therefore not available for page allocation. The concurrency inside alloc_contig_range() was clarified. Now we can find that hugepage and virtio call alloc_contig_range() without any lock, thus cma_mutex is "redundant" in cma_alloc() now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020102241.3729-1-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: YJ Chiang <yj.chiang@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/cma.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/cma.c b/mm/cma.c
index 7f415d7cda9f..3692a34e2353 100644
--- a/mm/cma.c
+++ b/mm/cma.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
struct cma cma_areas[MAX_CMA_AREAS];
unsigned cma_area_count;
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(cma_mutex);
phys_addr_t cma_get_base(const struct cma *cma)
{
@@ -454,10 +453,9 @@ struct page *cma_alloc(struct cma *cma, size_t count, unsigned int align,
mutex_unlock(&cma->lock);
pfn = cma->base_pfn + (bitmap_no << cma->order_per_bit);
- mutex_lock(&cma_mutex);
ret = alloc_contig_range(pfn, pfn + count, MIGRATE_CMA,
GFP_KERNEL | (no_warn ? __GFP_NOWARN : 0));
- mutex_unlock(&cma_mutex);
+
if (ret == 0) {
page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
break;