mm: lockless pagecache
Combine page_cache_get_speculative with lockless radix tree lookups to introduce lockless page cache lookups (ie. no mapping->tree_lock on the read-side). The only atomicity changes this introduces is that the gang pagecache lookup functions now behave as if they are implemented with multiple find_get_page calls, rather than operating on a snapshot of the pages. In practice, this atomicity guarantee is not used anyway, and it is to replace individual lookups, so these semantics are natural. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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