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-rw-r--r--mm/page_alloc.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 6e644f2744c2..764b7aabaf69 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -6611,11 +6611,19 @@ static int percpu_pagelist_high_fraction_sysctl_handler(const struct ctl_table *
int old_percpu_pagelist_high_fraction;
int ret;
+ /*
+ * Avoid using pcp_batch_high_lock for reads as the value is read
+ * atomically and a race with offlining is harmless.
+ */
+
+ if (!write)
+ return proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
+
mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
old_percpu_pagelist_high_fraction = percpu_pagelist_high_fraction;
ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
- if (!write || ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0)
goto out;
/* Sanity checking to avoid pcp imbalance */