From aab0b1029f0843756b68e0ed3ca983685bf43ed6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lee Schermerhorn Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:13:13 -0700 Subject: mempolicy: mark shared policies for unref As part of yet another rework of mempolicy reference counting, we want to be able to identify shared policies efficiently, because they have an extra ref taken on lookup that needs to be removed when we're finished using the policy. Note: the extra ref is required because the policies are shared between tasks/processes and can be changed/freed by one task while another task is using them--e.g., for page allocation. Building on David Rientjes mempolicy "mode flags" enhancement, this patch indicates a "shared" policy by setting a new MPOL_F_SHARED flag in the flags member of the struct mempolicy added by David. MPOL_F_SHARED, and any future "internal mode flags" are reserved from bit zero up, as they will never be passed in the upper bits of the mode argument of a mempolicy API. I set the MPOL_F_SHARED flag when the policy is installed in the shared policy rb-tree. Don't need/want to clear the flag when removing from the tree as the mempolicy is freed [unref'd] internally to the sp_delete() function. However, a task could hold another reference on this mempolicy from a prior lookup. We need the MPOL_F_SHARED flag to stay put so that any tasks holding a ref will unref, eventually freeing, the mempolicy. A later patch in this series will introduce a function to conditionally unref [mpol_free] a policy. The MPOL_F_SHARED flag is one reason [currently the only reason] to unref/free a policy via the conditional free. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mempolicy.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mempolicy.h b/include/linux/mempolicy.h index 9080fab1426..017def89e56 100644 --- a/include/linux/mempolicy.h +++ b/include/linux/mempolicy.h @@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ enum { #define MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL (1<<2) /* Move every page to conform to mapping */ #define MPOL_MF_INTERNAL (1<<3) /* Internal flags start here */ +/* + * Internal flags that share the struct mempolicy flags word with + * "mode flags". These flags are allocated from bit 0 up, as they + * are never OR'ed into the mode in mempolicy API arguments. + */ +#define MPOL_F_SHARED (1 << 0) /* identify shared policies */ + #ifdef __KERNEL__ #include -- cgit v1.2.3