From bea04b073292b2acb522c7c1aa67a4fc58151530 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianyu Zhan Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:09:51 -0700 Subject: mm: use the light version __mod_zone_page_state in mlocked_vma_newpage() mlocked_vma_newpage() is called with pte lock held(a spinlock), which implies preemtion disabled, and the vm stat counter is not modified from interrupt context, so we need not use an irq-safe mod_zone_page_state() here, using a light-weight version __mod_zone_page_state() would be OK. This patch also documents __mod_zone_page_state() and some of its callsites. The comment above __mod_zone_page_state() is from Hugh Dickins, and acked by Christoph. Most credits to Hugh and Christoph for the clarification on the usage of the __mod_zone_page_state(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Suggested-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmstat.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmstat.c') diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c index 376bd2d21482..b37bd49bfd55 100644 --- a/mm/vmstat.c +++ b/mm/vmstat.c @@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ void set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(pg_data_t *pgdat, } /* - * For use when we know that interrupts are disabled. + * For use when we know that interrupts are disabled, + * or when we know that preemption is disabled and that + * particular counter cannot be updated from interrupt context. */ void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item, int delta) -- cgit v1.2.3