mm: perform non-atomic test-clear of PG_mlocked on free
authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:01:48 +0000 (17:01 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:30 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
commit451ea25da71590361c71bf3044c55b870a887d53
treee2e9de6e7c1fb4f79c0413a3c4d401ec9263b722
parentbf88c8c83e4425d17e29daa5354ffb1f8ba7b225
mm: perform non-atomic test-clear of PG_mlocked on free

By the time PG_mlocked is cleared in the page freeing path, nobody else is
looking at our page->flags anymore.

It is thus safe to make the test-and-clear non-atomic and thereby removing
an unnecessary and expensive operation from a hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/page-flags.h
mm/page_alloc.c