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H A D | vmalloc.c | diff f9e09977671b618aeb25ddc0d4c9a84d5b5cde9d Mon Dec 12 18:44:23 CST 2016 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> mm: turn vmap_purge_lock into a mutex
The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects applications like audio.
This patch replaces it with a mutex to allow preemption while holding the lock.
Thanks to Joel Fernandes for the detailed report and analysis as well as an earlier attempt at fixing this issue.
[1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-10-git-send-email-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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