patches/mm-make-vmstat-rt-aware.patch

From d2db1fffc291a47719857d6bd7b24837d2859dd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:30:13 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] mm/vmstat: Protect per cpu variables with preempt disable on
 RT

Disable preemption on -RT for the vmstat code. On vanila the code runs in
IRQ-off regions while on -RT it is not. "preempt_disable" ensures that the
same ressources is not updated in parallel due to preemption.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 613771909b6e..e28c5a43229d 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct vm_event_state, vm_event_states);
  */
 static inline void __count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item)
 {
+	preempt_disable_rt();
 	raw_cpu_inc(vm_event_states.event[item]);
+	preempt_enable_rt();
 }
 
 static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item)
@@ -43,7 +45,9 @@ static inline void count_vm_event(enum vm_event_item item)
 
 static inline void __count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta)
 {
+	preempt_disable_rt();
 	raw_cpu_add(vm_event_states.event[item], delta);
+	preempt_enable_rt();
 }
 
 static inline void count_vm_events(enum vm_event_item item, long delta)
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 89cec42d19ff..feb9eb115aaa 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
 	long x;
 	long t;
 
+	preempt_disable_rt();
 	x = delta + __this_cpu_read(*p);
 
 	t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
@@ -254,6 +255,7 @@ void __mod_zone_page_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item,
 		x = 0;
 	}
 	__this_cpu_write(*p, x);
+	preempt_enable_rt();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mod_zone_page_state);
 
@@ -306,6 +308,7 @@ void __inc_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 	s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
 	s8 v, t;
 
+	preempt_disable_rt();
 	v = __this_cpu_inc_return(*p);
 	t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
 	if (unlikely(v > t)) {
@@ -314,6 +317,7 @@ void __inc_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 		zone_page_state_add(v + overstep, zone, item);
 		__this_cpu_write(*p, -overstep);
 	}
+	preempt_enable_rt();
 }
 
 void __inc_node_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item item)
@@ -350,6 +354,7 @@ void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 	s8 __percpu *p = pcp->vm_stat_diff + item;
 	s8 v, t;
 
+	preempt_disable_rt();
 	v = __this_cpu_dec_return(*p);
 	t = __this_cpu_read(pcp->stat_threshold);
 	if (unlikely(v < - t)) {
@@ -358,6 +363,7 @@ void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *zone, enum zone_stat_item item)
 		zone_page_state_add(v - overstep, zone, item);
 		__this_cpu_write(*p, overstep);
 	}
+	preempt_enable_rt();
 }
 
 void __dec_node_state(struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item item)
-- 
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