Re: [PATCH 29/29] mm: shrinker: move shrinker-related code into a separate file

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Hi Sergey,

On 2023/6/23 13:25, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
On (23/06/22 16:53), Qi Zheng wrote:
+/*
+ * Remove one
+ */
+void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+	struct dentry *debugfs_entry;
+	int debugfs_id;
+
+	if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_REGISTERED))
+		return;
+
+	shrinker_put(shrinker);
+	wait_for_completion(&shrinker->completion_wait);
+
+	mutex_lock(&shrinker_mutex);
+	list_del_rcu(&shrinker->list);

Should this function wait for RCU grace period(s) before it goes
touching shrinker fields?

Why? We will free this shrinker instance by rcu after executing
unregister_shrinker(). So it is safe to touch shrinker fields here.


+	shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED;
+	if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
+		unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
+	debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id);
+	mutex_unlock(&shrinker_mutex);
+
+	shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id);
+
+	kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
+	shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);

[..]

+void shrinker_free(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+	kfree(shrinker);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrinker_free);
+
+void unregister_and_free_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
+{
+	unregister_shrinker(shrinker);
+	kfree_rcu(shrinker, rcu);
+}

Seems like this

	unregister_shrinker();
	shrinker_free();

is not exact equivalent of this

	unregister_and_free_shrinker();

Yes, my original intention is that shrinker_free() is only used to
handle the case where register_shrinker() returns failure.

I will implement the method suggested by Dave in 02/29. Those APIs are
more concise and will bring more benefits. :)

Thanks,
Qi






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