mm/cma.c: remove redundant cma_mutex lock
The cma_mutex which protects alloc_contig_range() was first appeared in commit 7ee793a6 ("cma: Remove potential deadlock situation"), at that time, there is no guarantee the behavior of concurrency inside alloc_contig_range(). After commit 2c7452a0 ("mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated") > However, two subsystems (CMA and gigantic > huge pages for example) could attempt operations on the same range. If > this happens, one thread may 'undo' the work another thread is doing. > This can result in pageblocks being incorrectly left marked as > MIGRATE_ISOLATE and therefore not available for page allocation. The concurrency inside alloc_contig_range() was clarified. Now we can find that hugepage and virtio call alloc_contig_range() without any lock, thus cma_mutex is "redundant" in cma_alloc() now. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020102241.3729-1-lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> Cc: YJ Chiang <yj.chiang@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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