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Commit a4efc174 authored by Lecopzer Chen's avatar Lecopzer Chen Committed by Linus Torvalds
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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: default avatarLecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>
Cc: YJ Chiang <yj.chiang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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