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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/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang <[email protected]> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]> Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> Cc: John Dias <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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