[patch 2/9] mm: vmalloc failure flush fix

npiggin
2008-11-08T02:15:14Z

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An initial vmalloc failure should start off a synchronous flush of lazy
areas, in case someone is in progress flushing them already, which could
cause us to return an allocation failure even if there is plenty of KVA
free.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
---
Index: linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -522,13 +522,24 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsig
}

/*
+ * Kick off a purge of the outstanding lazy areas. Don't bother if somebody
+ * is already purging.
+ */
+static void try_purge_vmap_area_lazy(void)
+{
+ unsigned long start = ULONG_MAX, end = 0;
+
+ __purge_vmap_area_lazy(&start, &end, 0, 0);
+}
+
+/*
* Kick off a purge of the outstanding lazy areas.
*/
static void purge_vmap_area_lazy(void)
{
unsigned long start = ULONG_MAX, end = 0;

- __purge_vmap_area_lazy(&start, &end, 0, 0);
+ __purge_vmap_area_lazy(&start, &end, 1, 0);
}

/*
@@ -539,7 +550,7 @@ static void free_unmap_vmap_area(struct
va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREE;
atomic_add((va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT, &vmap_lazy_nr);
if (unlikely(atomic_read(&vmap_lazy_nr) > lazy_max_pages()))
- purge_vmap_area_lazy();
+ try_purge_vmap_area_lazy();
}

static struct vmap_area *find_vmap_area(unsigned long addr)