mm: make mm->pinned_vm an atomic64 counter
Taking a sleeping lock to _only_ increment a variable is quite the overkill, and pretty much all users do this. Furthermore, some drivers (ie: infiniband and scif) that need pinned semantics can go to quite some trouble to actually delay via workqueue (un)accounting for pinned pages when not possible to acquire it. By making the counter atomic we no longer need to hold the mmap_sem and can simply some code around it for pinned_vm users. The counter is 64-bit such that we need not worry about overflows such as rdma user input controlled from userspace. Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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