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mm: shmem: avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:10:24 +0000 (16:10 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:54:09 +0000 (16:54 -0700)
commit07a427884348d38a6fd56fa4d78249c407196650
treef1cea6fad3957b790f7cc28c47ef8bdab15db259
parentb745bc85f21ea707e4ea1a91948055fa3e72c77b
mm: shmem: avoid atomic operation during shmem_getpage_gfp

shmem_getpage_gfp uses an atomic operation to set the SwapBacked field
before it's even added to the LRU or visible.  This is unnecessary as what
could it possible race against?  Use an unlocked variant.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page-flags.h
mm/shmem.c