On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 07:30:01PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> 
> > Please comment. Or else I will continue to sumbit it :)
> 
> The following will hang the kernel on SMP, since you're
> already holding the spinlock here. Try compiling with
> CONFIG_SMP and see what happens...

You are right. Sloppy research by me :(

New patch below with the vmscan part removed.


diff -aur linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/memory.c linux/mm/memory.c
--- linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/memory.c Sun Jan 28 20:53:13 2001
+++ linux/mm/memory.c   Sun Jan 28 22:43:04 2001
@@ -377,7 +377,6 @@
                address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK;
                dir++;
        } while (address && (address < end));
-       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        /*
         * Update rss for the mm_struct (not necessarily current->mm)
         * Notice that rss is an unsigned long.
@@ -386,6 +385,7 @@
                mm->rss -= freed;
        else
                mm->rss = 0;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 }
 
 
@@ -1038,7 +1038,9 @@
                flush_icache_page(vma, page);
        }
 
+       spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->rss++;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
 
        pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
 
@@ -1072,7 +1074,9 @@
                        return -1;
                clear_user_highpage(page, addr);
                entry = pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
+               spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                mm->rss++;
+               spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
                flush_page_to_ram(page);
        }
        set_pte(page_table, entry);
@@ -1111,7 +1115,9 @@
                return 0;
        if (new_page == NOPAGE_OOM)
                return -1;
+       spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        ++mm->rss;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        /*
         * This silly early PAGE_DIRTY setting removes a race
         * due to the bad i386 page protection. But it's valid
diff -aur linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/mmap.c linux/mm/mmap.c
--- linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/mmap.c   Sat Dec 30 18:35:19 2000
+++ linux/mm/mmap.c     Sun Jan 28 22:43:04 2001
@@ -879,8 +879,8 @@
        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mpnt = mm->mmap;
        mm->mmap = mm->mmap_avl = mm->mmap_cache = NULL;
-       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->rss = 0;
+       spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        mm->total_vm = 0;
        mm->locked_vm = 0;
        while (mpnt) {
diff -aur linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/swapfile.c linux/mm/swapfile.c
--- linux-2.4.1-pre11-clean/mm/swapfile.c       Fri Dec 29 23:07:24 2000
+++ linux/mm/swapfile.c Sun Jan 28 22:43:04 2001
@@ -231,7 +231,9 @@
        set_pte(dir, pte_mkdirty(mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot)));
        swap_free(entry);
        get_page(page);
+       spin_lock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
        ++vma->vm_mm->rss;
+       spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
 }
 
 static inline void unuse_pmd(struct vm_area_struct * vma, pmd_t *dir,

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