mm: showmem: make the notifiers atomic

There are places in kernel like the lowmemorykiller which
invokes show_mem_call_notifiers from an atomic context.
So move from a blocking notifier to atomic. At present
the notifier callbacks does not call sleeping functions,
but it should be made sure, it does not happen in future also.

Change-Id: I9668e67463ab8a6a60be55dbc86b88f45be8b041
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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Vinayak Menon 2015-04-16 16:51:47 -07:00 committed by David Keitel
parent 3086328d5f
commit 8dd433c495

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2014, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2014-2015, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
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#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(show_mem_notifier);
ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(show_mem_notifier);
int show_mem_notifier_register(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return blocking_notifier_chain_register(&show_mem_notifier, nb);
return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&show_mem_notifier, nb);
}
int show_mem_notifier_unregister(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&show_mem_notifier, nb);
return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&show_mem_notifier, nb);
}
void show_mem_call_notifiers(void)
{
blocking_notifier_call_chain(&show_mem_notifier, 0, NULL);
atomic_notifier_call_chain(&show_mem_notifier, 0, NULL);
}
static int show_mem_notifier_get(void *dat, u64 *val)