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Nick Piggintorvalds
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mm: readahead scan lockless
radix_tree_next_hole() is implemented as a series of radix_tree_lookup()s. So it can be called locklessly, under rcu_read_lock(). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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mm/readahead.c

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@@ -382,9 +382,9 @@ ondemand_readahead(struct address_space *mapping,
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if (hit_readahead_marker) {
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pgoff_t start;
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read_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
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start = radix_tree_next_hole(&mapping->page_tree, offset, max+1);
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read_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
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rcu_read_lock();
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start = radix_tree_next_hole(&mapping->page_tree, offset,max+1);
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rcu_read_unlock();
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if (!start || start - offset > max)
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return 0;

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