On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 10:06:24PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > +/* Don't lock again iff page's lruvec locked */ > +static inline struct lruvec *relock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page, > + struct lruvec *locked_lruvec) > +{ > + struct pglist_data *pgdat = page_pgdat(page); > + struct lruvec *lruvec; > + > + rcu_read_lock(); > + lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat); > + > + if (locked_lruvec == lruvec) { > + rcu_read_unlock(); > + return lruvec; > + } > + rcu_read_unlock(); Why not simply: rcu_read_lock(); lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat); rcu_read_unlock(); if (locked_lruvec == lruvec) return lruvec; Also, why are you bothering to re-enable interrupts here? Surely if you're holding lock A with interrupts disabled , you can just drop lock A, acquire lock B and leave the interrupts alone. That way you only need one of this variety of function, and not the separate irq/irqsave variants.