linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] mm, meminit: Allow early_pfn_to

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jul 2015 13:22:04 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Nicolai Stange <nicstange@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Alex Ng <alexng@...rosoft.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mm, meminit: Allow early_pfn_to_nid to be used during runtime

early_pfn_to_nid historically was inherently not SMP safe but only
used during boot which is inherently single threaded or during hotplug
which is protected by a giant mutex. With deferred memory initialisation
there was a thread-safe version introduced and the early_pfn_to_nid
would trigger a BUG_ON if used unsafely. Memory hotplug hit that check.
This patch makes early_pfn_to_nid introduces a lock to make it safe to
use during hotplug.

Reported-and-tested-by: Alex Ng <alexng@...rosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 94e2599830c2..f1e841c67b7a 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -982,21 +982,26 @@ static void __init __free_pages_boot_core(struct page *page,
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID) || \
 	defined(CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP)
-/* Only safe to use early in boot when initialisation is single-threaded */
+
 static struct mminit_pfnnid_cache early_pfnnid_cache __meminitdata;
 
 int __meminit early_pfn_to_nid(unsigned long pfn)
 {
+	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(early_pfn_lock);
 	int nid;
 
-	/* The system will behave unpredictably otherwise */
-	BUG_ON(system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING);
+	/* Avoid locking overhead during boot but hotplug must lock */
+	if (system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING)
+		spin_lock(&early_pfn_lock);
 
 	nid = __early_pfn_to_nid(pfn, &early_pfnnid_cache);
-	if (nid >= 0)
-		return nid;
-	/* just returns 0 */
-	return 0;
+	if (nid < 0)
+		nid = 0;
+
+	if (system_state != SYSTEM_BOOTING)
+		spin_unlock(&early_pfn_lock);
+
+	return nid;
 }
 #endif
 
-- 
2.4.3

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