In preparation for implementing lockless slab shrink, we need to dynamically allocate the vmw-balloon shrinker, so that it can be freed asynchronously using kfree_rcu(). Then it doesn't need to wait for RCU read-side critical section when releasing the struct vmballoon. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c index 9ce9b9e0e9b6..2f86f666b476 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c +++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ struct vmballoon { /** * @shrinker: shrinker interface that is used to avoid over-inflation. */ - struct shrinker shrinker; + struct shrinker *shrinker; /** * @shrinker_registered: whether the shrinker was registered. @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ static unsigned long vmballoon_shrinker_count(struct shrinker *shrinker, static void vmballoon_unregister_shrinker(struct vmballoon *b) { if (b->shrinker_registered) - unregister_shrinker(&b->shrinker); + unregister_and_free_shrinker(b->shrinker); b->shrinker_registered = false; } @@ -1581,14 +1581,18 @@ static int vmballoon_register_shrinker(struct vmballoon *b) if (!vmwballoon_shrinker_enable) return 0; - b->shrinker.scan_objects = vmballoon_shrinker_scan; - b->shrinker.count_objects = vmballoon_shrinker_count; - b->shrinker.seeks = DEFAULT_SEEKS; + b->shrinker = shrinker_alloc_and_init(vmballoon_shrinker_count, + vmballoon_shrinker_scan, + 0, DEFAULT_SEEKS, 0, b); + if (!b->shrinker) + return -ENOMEM; - r = register_shrinker(&b->shrinker, "vmw-balloon"); + r = register_shrinker(b->shrinker, "vmw-balloon"); if (r == 0) b->shrinker_registered = true; + else + shrinker_free(b->shrinker); return r; } -- 2.30.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel