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In order to implement preemptible object mapping we need a zspage lock that satisfies several preconditions: - it should be reader-write type of a lock - it should be possible to hold it from any context, but also being preemptible if the context allows it - we never sleep while acquiring but can sleep while holding in read mode An rwsemaphore doesn't suffice, due to atomicity requirements, rwlock doesn't satisfy due to reader-preemptability requirement. It's also worth to mention, that per-zspage rwsem is a little too memory heavy (we can easily have double digits megabytes used only on rwsemaphores). Switch over from rwlock_t to a atomic_t-based implementation of a reader-writer semaphore that satisfies all of the preconditions. The spin-lock based zspage_lock is suggested by Hillf Danton. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303022425.285971-14-senozhatsky@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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