[PATCH v4 7/8] mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()

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Now there are no readers of shrinker_rwsem, so
synchronize_shrinkers() does not need to hold the
writer of shrinker_rwsem to wait for all running
shinkers to complete, synchronize_srcu() is enough.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 7aaf6f94ac1b..ac7ab4aa344f 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -796,15 +796,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
 /**
  * synchronize_shrinkers - Wait for all running shrinkers to complete.
  *
- * This is equivalent to calling unregister_shrink() and register_shrinker(),
- * but atomically and with less overhead. This is useful to guarantee that all
- * shrinker invocations have seen an update, before freeing memory, similar to
- * rcu.
+ * This is useful to guarantee that all shrinker invocations have seen an
+ * update, before freeing memory.
  */
 void synchronize_shrinkers(void)
 {
-	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
-	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation);
 	synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu);
 }
-- 
2.20.1





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