From: Andrew Morton Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:51:15 +0000 (-0800) Subject: revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge" X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc2~28 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46666d8ac42893f90edde7e57a11bc8749d7e89c;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge" Revert commit e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 ("mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge") Bryan Donlan reports: : After testing 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 with a btrfs root filesystem, I : got the OOPS quoted below and a hard freeze shortly after boot. : Boot messages and config are attached. : : ------------[ cut here ]------------ : Kernel BUG at c05ef80d [verbose debug info unavailable] : invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP : last sysfs file: /sys/block/xvdc/size : Modules linked in: : : Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc1 #6) : EIP: 0061:[] EFLAGS: 00010087 CPU: 2 : EIP is at schedule+0x7cd/0x950 : EAX: d5aeca80 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d4cb9a40 : ESI: c12f5600 EDI: d4cb9a40 EBP: d6033fa4 ESP: d6033ef4 : DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069 : Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=d6032000 task=d6020b70 task.ti=d6032000) : Stack: : 000d85bc 00000000 000186a0 00000000 0dd11410 c0105417 c12efe00 0dc367c3 : 00000011 c0105d46 d5a5d310 deadbeef d4cb9a40 c07cc600 c05f1340 c12e0060 : deadbeef d6020b70 d6020d08 00000002 c014377d 00000000 c12f5600 00002c22 : Call Trace: : [] xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x17/0x30 : [] check_events+0x8/0x12 : [] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 : [] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x12d/0x2e0 : [] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x146/0x160 : [] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xc0 and bisected it to this commit. Let's remove it now while we have a think about the problem. Reported-by: Bryan Donlan Tested-by: Christophe Saout Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c index 7e00b280648..75f49d312e8 100644 --- a/mm/vmalloc.c +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include #include @@ -496,7 +495,7 @@ static atomic_t vmap_lazy_nr = ATOMIC_INIT(0); static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, int sync, int force_flush) { - static DEFINE_MUTEX(purge_lock); + static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(purge_lock); LIST_HEAD(valist); struct vmap_area *va; int nr = 0; @@ -507,10 +506,10 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, * the case that isn't actually used at the moment anyway. */ if (!sync && !force_flush) { - if (!mutex_trylock(&purge_lock)) + if (!spin_trylock(&purge_lock)) return; } else - mutex_lock(&purge_lock); + spin_lock(&purge_lock); rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(va, &vmap_area_list, list) { @@ -542,7 +541,7 @@ static void __purge_vmap_area_lazy(unsigned long *start, unsigned long *end, __free_vmap_area(va); spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock); } - mutex_unlock(&purge_lock); + spin_unlock(&purge_lock); } /*