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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2009-09-21 17:01:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-09-22 07:17:30 -0700
commit451ea25da71590361c71bf3044c55b870a887d53 (patch)
treee2e9de6e7c1fb4f79c0413a3c4d401ec9263b722 /mm
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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')
-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)
unsigned long flags;
int i;
int bad = 0;
- int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page);
+ int wasMlocked = __TestClearPageMlocked(page);
kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, order);
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ static void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold)
struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
struct per_cpu_pages *pcp;
unsigned long flags;
- int wasMlocked = TestClearPageMlocked(page);
+ int wasMlocked = __TestClearPageMlocked(page);
kmemcheck_free_shadow(page, 0);