2006-05-17 22:12:05

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [PATCH 18/22] [PATCH] Remove cond_resched in gather_stats()

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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gather_stats() is called with a spinlock held from check_pte_range. We
cannot reschedule with a lock held.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>

---
mm/mempolicy.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.16.16.orig/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.16/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -1796,7 +1796,6 @@ static void gather_stats(struct page *pa
md->mapcount_max = count;

md->node[page_to_nid(page)]++;
- cond_resched();
}

#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE

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