mm: perform non-atomic test-clear of PG_mlocked on free

By the time PG_mlocked is cleared in the page freeing path, nobody else is
looking at our page->flags anymore.

It is thus safe to make the test-and-clear non-atomic and thereby removing
an unnecessary and expensive operation from a hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 2b87acfc5f87..d07c0bb2203a 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ static inline int TestSetPage##uname(struct page *page)			\
 static inline int TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page)               \
                 { return test_and_clear_bit(PG_##lname, &page->flags); }
 
+#define __TESTCLEARFLAG(uname, lname)                                   \
+static inline int __TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page)             \
+                { return __test_and_clear_bit(PG_##lname, &page->flags); }
 
 #define PAGEFLAG(uname, lname) TESTPAGEFLAG(uname, lname)               \
         SETPAGEFLAG(uname, lname) CLEARPAGEFLAG(uname, lname)
@@ -184,6 +187,9 @@ static inline void __ClearPage##uname(struct page *page) {  }
 #define TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(uname)                                      \
 static inline int TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page) { return 0; }
 
+#define __TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(uname)                                    \
+static inline int __TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page) { return 0; }
+
 struct page;    /* forward declaration */
 
 TESTPAGEFLAG(Locked, locked) TESTSETFLAG(Locked, locked)
@@ -250,11 +256,11 @@ PAGEFLAG(Unevictable, unevictable) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Unevictable, unevictable)
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT
 #define MLOCK_PAGES 1
 PAGEFLAG(Mlocked, mlocked) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Mlocked, mlocked)
-        TESTSCFLAG(Mlocked, mlocked)
+        TESTSCFLAG(Mlocked, mlocked) __TESTCLEARFLAG(Mlocked, mlocked)
 #else
 #define MLOCK_PAGES 0
-PAGEFLAG_FALSE(Mlocked)
-        SETPAGEFLAG_NOOP(Mlocked) TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(Mlocked)
+PAGEFLAG_FALSE(Mlocked) SETPAGEFLAG_NOOP(Mlocked)
+        TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(Mlocked) __TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(Mlocked)
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_PG_UNCACHED