From 443c6f145de813518c36ac6b6e4e08d9445337e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:00:47 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl The zone list code clearly cannot tolerate concurrent writers (I couldn't find any locks for that), so simply add a global mutex. No need for RCU in this case. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- mm/page_alloc.c | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index d79b9258056..4e9f5cc5fb5 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -2402,13 +2402,14 @@ int numa_zonelist_order_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, { char saved_string[NUMA_ZONELIST_ORDER_LEN]; int ret; + static DEFINE_MUTEX(zl_order_mutex); + mutex_lock(&zl_order_mutex); if (write) - strncpy(saved_string, (char*)table->data, - NUMA_ZONELIST_ORDER_LEN); + strcpy(saved_string, (char*)table->data); ret = proc_dostring(table, write, buffer, length, ppos); if (ret) - return ret; + goto out; if (write) { int oldval = user_zonelist_order; if (__parse_numa_zonelist_order((char*)table->data)) { @@ -2421,7 +2422,9 @@ int numa_zonelist_order_handler(ctl_table *table, int write, } else if (oldval != user_zonelist_order) build_all_zonelists(); } - return 0; +out: + mutex_unlock(&zl_order_mutex); + return ret; }