Remove nid_lock from alloc_fresh_huge_page
The fix to that race in alloc_fresh_huge_page() which could give an illegal
node ID did not need nid_lock at all: the fix was to replace static int nid
by static int prev_nid and do the work on local int nid. nid_lock did make
sure that racers strictly roundrobin the nodes, but that's not something we
need to enforce strictly. Kill nid_lock.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 15fc7b0..2d7611c 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -104,15 +104,19 @@
{
static int prev_nid;
struct page *page;
- static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nid_lock);
int nid;
- spin_lock(&nid_lock);
+ /*
+ * Copy static prev_nid to local nid, work on that, then copy it
+ * back to prev_nid afterwards: otherwise there's a window in which
+ * a racer might pass invalid nid MAX_NUMNODES to alloc_pages_node.
+ * But we don't need to use a spin_lock here: it really doesn't
+ * matter if occasionally a racer chooses the same nid as we do.
+ */
nid = next_node(prev_nid, node_online_map);
if (nid == MAX_NUMNODES)
nid = first_node(node_online_map);
prev_nid = nid;
- spin_unlock(&nid_lock);
page = alloc_pages_node(nid, htlb_alloc_mask|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_NOWARN,
HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER);