From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> there is no need to have both pcpu_drain and pcpu_drain_mutex visible outside of drain_all_pages. This might just attract abuse. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> --- Hi Andrew, Mel, I think this would be a good cleanup to be folded into mm-page_alloc-use-static-global-work_struct-for-draining-per-cpu-pages.patch. mm/page_alloc.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c index b6411816787a..6c48053bcd81 100644 --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -92,10 +92,6 @@ EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(_numa_mem_); int _node_numa_mem_[MAX_NUMNODES]; #endif -/* work_structs for global per-cpu drains */ -DEFINE_MUTEX(pcpu_drain_mutex); -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, pcpu_drain); - #ifdef CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_LATENT_ENTROPY volatile unsigned long latent_entropy __latent_entropy; EXPORT_SYMBOL(latent_entropy); @@ -2364,6 +2360,8 @@ static void drain_local_pages_wq(struct work_struct *work) */ void drain_all_pages(struct zone *zone) { + static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct work_struct, pcpu_drain); + static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcpu_drain_mutex); int cpu; /* -- 2.11.0 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>