[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock

See the "fixup bad_range()" patch for more information, but this actually
creates a the lock to protect things making assumptions about a zone's size
staying constant at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 52 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
index e8103be9d5280..4b08bc9475786 100644
--- a/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
+++ b/include/linux/memory_hotplug.h
@@ -16,13 +16,36 @@ void pgdat_resize_lock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
 static inline
 void pgdat_resize_unlock(struct pglist_data *pgdat, unsigned long *flags)
 {
-	spin_lock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgdat->node_size_lock, *flags);
 }
 static inline
 void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 {
 	spin_lock_init(&pgdat->node_size_lock);
 }
+/*
+ * Zone resizing functions
+ */
+static inline unsigned zone_span_seqbegin(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	return read_seqbegin(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline int zone_span_seqretry(struct zone *zone, unsigned iv)
+{
+	return read_seqretry(&zone->span_seqlock, iv);
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writelock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	write_seqlock(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writeunlock(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	write_sequnlock(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
+static inline void zone_seqlock_init(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	seqlock_init(&zone->span_seqlock);
+}
 #else /* ! CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
 /*
  * Stub functions for when hotplug is off
@@ -30,5 +53,17 @@ void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
 static inline void pgdat_resize_lock(struct pglist_data *p, unsigned long *f) {}
 static inline void pgdat_resize_unlock(struct pglist_data *p, unsigned long *f) {}
 static inline void pgdat_resize_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat) {}
-#endif
+
+static inline unsigned zone_span_seqbegin(struct zone *zone)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+static inline int zone_span_seqretry(struct zone *zone, unsigned iv)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+static inline void zone_span_writelock(struct zone *zone) {}
+static inline void zone_span_writeunlock(struct zone *zone) {}
+static inline void zone_seqlock_init(struct zone *zone) {}
+#endif /* ! CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG */
 #endif /* __LINUX_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index e050d68963a12..f5fa3082fd6a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <linux/threads.h>
 #include <linux/numa.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/seqlock.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
 /* Free memory management - zoned buddy allocator.  */
@@ -137,6 +138,10 @@ struct zone {
 	 * free areas of different sizes
 	 */
 	spinlock_t		lock;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	/* see spanned/present_pages for more description */
+	seqlock_t		span_seqlock;
+#endif
 	struct free_area	free_area[MAX_ORDER];
 
 
@@ -220,6 +225,16 @@ struct zone {
 	/* zone_start_pfn == zone_start_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT */
 	unsigned long		zone_start_pfn;
 
+	/*
+	 * zone_start_pfn, spanned_pages and present_pages are all
+	 * protected by span_seqlock.  It is a seqlock because it has
+	 * to be read outside of zone->lock, and it is done in the main
+	 * allocator path.  But, it is written quite infrequently.
+	 *
+	 * The lock is declared along with zone->lock because it is
+	 * frequently read in proximity to zone->lock.  It's good to
+	 * give them a chance of being in the same cacheline.
+	 */
 	unsigned long		spanned_pages;	/* total size, including holes */
 	unsigned long		present_pages;	/* amount of memory (excluding holes) */