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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2010-02-01 22:25:57 +1100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-02 12:50:47 -0800
commit02b709df817c0db174f249cc59e5f7fd01b64d92 (patch)
treef1e6af927573507e503f3cddfb5bae457a24f72c /kernel/configs.c
parentde5604231ce4bc8db1bc1dcd27d8540cbedf1518 (diff)
mm: purge fragmented percpu vmap blocks
Improve handling of fragmented per-CPU vmaps. We previously don't free up per-CPU maps until all its addresses have been used and freed. So fragmented blocks could fill up vmalloc space even if they actually had no active vmap regions within them. Add some logic to allow all CPUs to have these blocks purged in the case of failure to allocate a new vm area, and also put some logic to trim such blocks of a current CPU if we hit them in the allocation path (so as to avoid a large build up of them). Christoph reported some vmap allocation failures when using the per CPU vmap APIs in XFS, which cannot be reproduced after this patch and the previous bug fix. Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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