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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-10-29 18:16:03 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-10-29 21:40:37 -0700 |
commit | fc2acab31be8e869b2d5f6de12f557f6f054f19c (patch) | |
tree | 60cf419f5e88c3c46d39675a14649ea1e5849f03 /Documentation/devices.txt | |
parent | 4d6ddfa9242bc3d27fb0f7248f6fdee0299c731f (diff) |
[PATCH] mm: tlb_finish_mmu forget rss
zap_pte_range has been counting the pages it frees in tlb->freed, then
tlb_finish_mmu has used that to update the mm's rss. That got stranger when I
added anon_rss, yet updated it by a different route; and stranger when rss and
anon_rss became mm_counters with special access macros. And it would no
longer be viable if we're relying on page_table_lock to stabilize the
mm_counter, but calling tlb_finish_mmu outside that lock.
Remove the mmu_gather's freed field, let tlb_finish_mmu stick to its own
business, just decrement the rss mm_counter in zap_pte_range (yes, there was
some point to batching the update, and a subsequent patch restores that). And
forget the anal paranoia of first reading the counter to avoid going negative
- if rss does go negative, just fix that bug.
Remove the mmu_gather's flushes and avoided_flushes from arm and arm26: no use
was being made of them. But arm26 alone was actually using the freed, in the
way some others use need_flush: give it a need_flush. arm26 seems to prefer
spaces to tabs here: respect that.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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