On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:57:59PM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 17:44 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
>
> > Yes, disabling preemption before alloc_pages() and enabling after
> > atomic_set() looks reasonable. Thanks.
>
> In fact, as alloc_pages(GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_ZERO, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> might sleep, it would be better to disable preemption after calling it :
Yeah, I've alread thought about that. :)
> zero_page = alloc_pages(GFP_TRANSHUGE | __GFP_ZERO, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> if (!zero_page)
> return 0;
> preempt_disable();
> if (cmpxchg(&huge_zero_pfn, 0, page_to_pfn(zero_page))) {
> preempt_enable();
> __free_page(zero_page);
> goto retry;
> }
> atomic_set(&huge_zero_refcount, 2);
> preempt_enable();
>
>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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