mm: Serialize access to min_free_kbytes
There is a race between the min_free_kbytes sysctl, memory hotplug and transparent hugepage support enablement. Memory hotplug uses a zonelists_mutex to avoid a race when building zonelists. Reuse it to serialise watermark updates. [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: Older patch fixed the race with spinlock] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
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