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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: stable@kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove needless lock and list in vmap
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:55:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090107065541.GC21629@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107054713.GA1416@barrios-desktop>

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:47:13PM +0900, MinChan Kim wrote:
> Anyone don't use vmap's dirty_list.
> I am not sure this is thing Nick's future work on purpose.
> If it is a dummy, we can remove dirty list and related codes
> to handle list and locking.
> 
> Also, In free_vmap_block, we don't have to check empty free_list.
> That's becuase before calling free_vmap_block, vb_free always checks
> empty of vb->free_list.
> 
> Now except vb_free, Anywhere don't call free_vmap_block.
> so, we can remove that check and locking.
> 
> If it is nick's intention to work in future, please, ignore this patch. 

I should add, it isn't really required for -stable.

> 
> Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/vmalloc.c |   19 ++-----------------
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 1ddb77b..1f79883 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -629,10 +629,7 @@ struct vmap_block {
>  	DECLARE_BITMAP(alloc_map, VMAP_BBMAP_BITS);
>  	DECLARE_BITMAP(dirty_map, VMAP_BBMAP_BITS);
>  	union {
> -		struct {
> -			struct list_head free_list;
> -			struct list_head dirty_list;
> -		};
> +		struct list_head free_list;
>  		struct rcu_head rcu_head;
>  	};
>  };
> @@ -699,7 +696,6 @@ static struct vmap_block *new_vmap_block(gfp_t gfp_mask)
>  	bitmap_zero(vb->alloc_map, VMAP_BBMAP_BITS);
>  	bitmap_zero(vb->dirty_map, VMAP_BBMAP_BITS);
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vb->free_list);
> -	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vb->dirty_list);
>  
>  	vb_idx = addr_to_vb_idx(va->va_start);
>  	spin_lock(&vmap_block_tree_lock);
> @@ -730,13 +726,6 @@ static void free_vmap_block(struct vmap_block *vb)
>  	struct vmap_block *tmp;
>  	unsigned long vb_idx;
>  
> -	spin_lock(&vb->vbq->lock);
> -	if (!list_empty(&vb->free_list))
> -		list_del(&vb->free_list);
> -	if (!list_empty(&vb->dirty_list))
> -		list_del(&vb->dirty_list);
> -	spin_unlock(&vb->vbq->lock);
> -
>  	vb_idx = addr_to_vb_idx(vb->va->va_start);
>  	spin_lock(&vmap_block_tree_lock);
>  	tmp = radix_tree_delete(&vmap_block_tree, vb_idx);
> @@ -820,11 +809,7 @@ static void vb_free(const void *addr, unsigned long size)
>  
>  	spin_lock(&vb->lock);
>  	bitmap_allocate_region(vb->dirty_map, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT, order);
> -	if (!vb->dirty) {
> -		spin_lock(&vb->vbq->lock);
> -		list_add(&vb->dirty_list, &vb->vbq->dirty);
> -		spin_unlock(&vb->vbq->lock);
> -	}
> +
>  	vb->dirty += 1UL << order;
>  	if (vb->dirty == VMAP_BBMAP_BITS) {
>  		BUG_ON(vb->free || !list_empty(&vb->free_list));
> -- 
> 1.5.4.3

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-07  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07  5:47 [PATCH] Remove needless lock and list in vmap MinChan Kim
2009-01-07  6:55 ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-07  7:45   ` MinChan Kim
2009-01-07  6:55 ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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