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author | Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> | 2014-04-07 15:39:43 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-04-07 16:36:14 -0700 |
commit | 293b6a4c875c3b49853bff7de99954f49f59aa75 (patch) | |
tree | c05e009383b80e79f477a8d4aa6f779bab04f668 /include | |
parent | 88da03a67674bcd6e9ecf18a0a182cf1303056ba (diff) | |
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vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks
vm counters are allowed to be racy. Use raw_cpu_ops to avoid the
local_irq_disable overhead and to avoid preemption checks which will be
added to the __this_cpu operations.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Add comment. Again.]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/vmstat.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h index ea4476157e00..45c9cd1daf7a 100644 --- a/include/linux/vmstat.h +++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h @@ -27,9 +27,13 @@ struct vm_event_state { DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vm_event_state, vm_event_states); +/* + * vm counters are allowed to be racy. Use raw_cpu_ops to avoid the + * local_irq_disable overhead. + */ static inline void __count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item) { - __this_cpu_inc(vm_event_states.event[item]); + raw_cpu_inc(vm_event_states.event[item]); } static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item) @@ -39,7 +43,7 @@ static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item) static inline void __count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta) { - __this_cpu_add(vm_event_states.event[item], delta); + raw_cpu_add(vm_event_states.event[item], delta); } static inline void count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta) |