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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>2008-12-01 03:00:35 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-12-01 07:58:06 -0800
commit2a1dc509747fdcfdf3a2df818a14908aed86c3d4 (patch)
tree4dd97b3090d314b42f793a48251497f34835a5e8
parent33b07db9f38fe73b3895f8d4db8fdee03e3afec3 (diff)
vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lock
The zone's rotation statistics must not be accessed without the corresponding LRU lock held. Fix an unprotected write in shrink_active_list(). Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7ea1440b53d..62e7f62fb55 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
list_add(&page->lru, &l_inactive);
}
+ spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
/*
* Count referenced pages from currently used mappings as
* rotated, even though they are moved to the inactive list.
@@ -1263,7 +1264,6 @@ static void shrink_active_list(unsigned long nr_pages, struct zone *zone,
pgmoved = 0;
lru = LRU_BASE + file * LRU_FILE;
- spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
while (!list_empty(&l_inactive)) {
page = lru_to_page(&l_inactive);
prefetchw_prev_lru_page(page, &l_inactive, flags);