From 7f8275d0d660c146de6ee3017e1e2e594c49e820 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:56:17 +1000 Subject: mm: add context argument to shrinker callback The current shrinker implementation requires the registered callback to have global state to work from. This makes it difficult to shrink caches that are not global (e.g. per-filesystem caches). Pass the shrinker structure to the callback so that users can embed the shrinker structure in the context the shrinker needs to operate on and get back to it in the callback via container_of(). Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig --- mm/vmscan.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 9c7e57c..199fa43 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -213,8 +213,9 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask, list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) { unsigned long long delta; unsigned long total_scan; - unsigned long max_pass = (*shrinker->shrink)(0, gfp_mask); + unsigned long max_pass; + max_pass = (*shrinker->shrink)(shrinker, 0, gfp_mask); delta = (4 * scanned) / shrinker->seeks; delta *= max_pass; do_div(delta, lru_pages + 1); @@ -242,8 +243,9 @@ unsigned long shrink_slab(unsigned long scanned, gfp_t gfp_mask, int shrink_ret; int nr_before; - nr_before = (*shrinker->shrink)(0, gfp_mask); - shrink_ret = (*shrinker->shrink)(this_scan, gfp_mask); + nr_before = (*shrinker->shrink)(shrinker, 0, gfp_mask); + shrink_ret = (*shrinker->shrink)(shrinker, this_scan, + gfp_mask); if (shrink_ret == -1) break; if (shrink_ret < nr_before) -- cgit v1.1 From a6aa62a0909b9ccb1f8b0d2653920ba071037972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:24:25 -0700 Subject: mm/vmscan.c: fix mapping use after free We need lock_page_nosync() here because we have no reference to the mapping when taking the page lock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Mel Gorman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/vmscan.c') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 199fa43..b94fe1b 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ static int may_write_to_queue(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) static void handle_write_error(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page, int error) { - lock_page(page); + lock_page_nosync(page); if (page_mapping(page) == mapping) mapping_set_error(mapping, error); unlock_page(page); -- cgit v1.1