Move the comments and spin_{lock/unlock}() calls around in shrink_worker() to make it obvious the lock is protecting the loop updating zswap_next_shrink. Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is intended to be squashed into "mm: zswap: fix global shrinker memcg iteration". --- mm/zswap.c | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/zswap.c b/mm/zswap.c index babf0abbcc765..df620eacd1d11 100644 --- a/mm/zswap.c +++ b/mm/zswap.c @@ -1364,24 +1364,22 @@ static void shrink_worker(struct work_struct *w) * until the next run of shrink_worker(). */ do { - spin_lock(&zswap_shrink_lock); - /* * Start shrinking from the next memcg after zswap_next_shrink. * When the offline cleaner has already advanced the cursor, * advancing the cursor here overlooks one memcg, but this * should be negligibly rare. + * + * If we get an online memcg, keep the extra reference in case + * the original one obtained by mem_cgroup_iter() is dropped by + * zswap_memcg_offline_cleanup() while we are shrinking the + * memcg. */ + spin_lock(&zswap_shrink_lock); do { memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, zswap_next_shrink, NULL); zswap_next_shrink = memcg; } while (memcg && !mem_cgroup_tryget_online(memcg)); - /* - * Note that if we got an online memcg, we will keep the extra - * reference in case the original reference obtained by mem_cgroup_iter - * is dropped by the zswap memcg offlining callback, ensuring that the - * memcg is not killed when we are reclaiming. - */ spin_unlock(&zswap_shrink_lock); if (!memcg) { -- 2.46.0.rc2.264.g509ed76dc8-goog