__free_pages_ok() disables IRQs before calling a common helper free_one_page() that acquires the zone lock. While this is safe, it unnecessarily disables IRQs on PREEMPT_RT kernels.
This patch explicitly acquires the lock with spin_lock_irqsave instead of relying on a helper. This removes the last instance of local_irq_save() in page_alloc.c. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@techsingularity.net> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index 1bb5b522a0f9..d94ec53367bd 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1559,21 +1559,18 @@ static void __free_pages_ok(struct page *page, unsigned int order, unsigned long flags; int migratetype; unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page); + struct zone *zone = page_zone(page); if (!free_pages_prepare(page, order, true)) return; migratetype = get_pfnblock_migratetype(page, pfn); - /* - * TODO FIX: Disable IRQs before acquiring IRQ-safe zone->lock - * and protect vmstat updates. - */ - local_irq_save(flags); + spin_lock_irqsave(&zone->lock, flags); __count_vm_events(PGFREE, 1 << order); - free_one_page(page_zone(page), page, pfn, order, migratetype, - fpi_flags); - local_irq_restore(flags); + migratetype = check_migratetype_isolated(zone, page, pfn, migratetype); + __free_one_page(page, pfn, zone, order, migratetype, fpi_flags); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lock, flags); } void __free_pages_core(struct page *page, unsigned int order) -- 2.26.2