mm/page_alloc: convert per-cpu list protection to local_lock
There is a lack of clarity of what exactly local_irq_save/local_irq_restore protects in page_alloc.c . It conflates the protection of per-cpu page allocation structures with per-cpu vmstat deltas. This patch protects the PCP structure using local_lock which for most configurations is identical to IRQ enabling/disabling. The scope of the lock is still wider than it should be but this is decreased later. It is possible for the local_lock to be embedded safely within struct per_cpu_pages but it adds complexity to free_unref_page_list. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes] [mgorman@techsingularity.net: work around a pahole limitation with zero-sized struct pagesets] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526080741.GW30378@techsingularity.net [lkp@intel.com: Make pagesets static] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210512095458.30632-3-mgorman@techsingularity.netSigned-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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