mm/page_alloc: factor out setting of pcp->high and pcp->batch
"Problems" with the current code: 1: there is a lack of synchronization in setting ->high and ->batch in percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler() 2: stop_machine() in zone_pcp_update() is unnecissary. 3: zone_pcp_update() does not consider the case where percpu_pagelist_fraction is non-zero To fix: 1: add memory barriers, a safe ->batch value, an update side mutex when updating ->high and ->batch, and use ACCESS_ONCE() for ->batch users that expect a stable value. 2: avoid draining pages in zone_pcp_update(), rely upon the memory barriers added to fix #1 3: factor out quite a few functions, and then call the appropriate one. Note that it results in a change to the behavior of zone_pcp_update(), which is used by memory_hotplug. I'm rather certain that I've diserned (and preserved) the essential behavior (changing ->high and ->batch), and only eliminated unneeded actions (draining the per cpu pages), but this may not be the case. Further note that the draining of pages that previously took place in zone_pcp_update() occured after repeated draining when attempting to offline a page, and after the offline has "succeeded". It appears that the draining was added to zone_pcp_update() to avoid refactoring setup_pageset() into 2 funtions. This patch: Creates pageset_set_batch() for use in setup_pageset(). pageset_set_batch() imitates the functionality of setup_pagelist_highmark(), but uses the boot time (percpu_pagelist_fraction == 0) calculations for determining ->high based on ->batch. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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