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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2009-09-21 20:01:48 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 10:17:30 -0400
commit451ea25da71590361c71bf3044c55b870a887d53 (patch)
treee2e9de6e7c1fb4f79c0413a3c4d401ec9263b722 /mm/page_alloc.c
parentbf88c8c83e4425d17e29daa5354ffb1f8ba7b225 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page_alloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 81926c7ef6f0..9242d13f4ff3 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
557 unsigned long flags; 557 unsigned long flags;
558 int i; 558 int i;
559 int bad = 0; 559 int bad = 0;
560 int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page); 560 int wasMlocked = __TestClearPageMlocked(page);
561 561
562 kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, order); 562 kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, order);
563 563
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
1026 struct zone *zone = page_zone(page); 1026 struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
1027 struct per_cpu_pages *pcp; 1027 struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
1028 unsigned long flags; 1028 unsigned long flags;
1029 int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page); 1029 int wasMlocked = __TestClearPageMlocked(page);
1030 1030
1031 kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, 0); 1031 kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, 0);
1032 1032