Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm, memcg: narrow the scope of percpu_charge_mutex

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I’d go with atomic_dec().

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> On Aug 3, 2021, at 00:11, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue 03-08-21 14:29:13, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> [...]
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> index 616d1a72ece3..6210b1124929 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -2208,11 +2208,11 @@ static void refill_stock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)
>>  */
>> static void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
>> {
>> -       static DEFINE_MUTEX(percpu_charge_mutex);
>>        int cpu, curcpu;
>> +       static atomic_t drainer = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
>> 
>>        /* If someone's already draining, avoid adding running more workers. */
>> -       if (!mutex_trylock(&percpu_charge_mutex))
>> +       if (atomic_cmpxchg(&drainer, 0, 1) != 0)
>>                return;
>>        /*
>>         * Notify other cpus that system-wide "drain" is running
>> @@ -2244,7 +2244,7 @@ static void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
>>                }
>>        }
>>        put_cpu();
>> -       mutex_unlock(&percpu_charge_mutex);
>> +       atomic_set(&drainer, 0);
> 
> atomic_set doesn't imply memory barrier IIRC. Is this safe?
> 
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs




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