On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 01:08:42PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > zone_pcp_reset allegedly protects against a race with drain_pages > using local_irq_save but this is bogus. local_irq_save only operates > on the local CPU. If memory hotplug is running on CPU A and drain_pages > is running on CPU B, disabling IRQs on CPU A does not affect CPU B and > offers no protection. > > This patch deletes IRQ disable/enable on the grounds that IRQs protect > nothing and assumes the existing hotplug paths guarantees the PCP cannot be > used after zone_pcp_enable(). That should be the case already because all > the pages have been freed and there is no page to put on the PCP lists. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> -- Oscar Salvador SUSE L3
