Kmem page charging and uncharging is serialized by means of exclusive access to the page. Do not take the page_cgroup lock and don't set pc->flags atomically. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index c528ae9ac230..d3961fce1d54 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3535,10 +3535,8 @@ void __memcg_kmem_commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, } pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); - lock_page_cgroup(pc); pc->mem_cgroup = memcg; - SetPageCgroupUsed(pc); - unlock_page_cgroup(pc); + pc->flags = PCG_USED; } void __memcg_kmem_uncharge_pages(struct page *page, int order) @@ -3548,19 +3546,11 @@ void __memcg_kmem_uncharge_pages(struct page *page, int order) pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); - /* - * Fast unlocked return. Theoretically might have changed, have to - * check again after locking. - */ if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc)) return; - lock_page_cgroup(pc); - if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) { - memcg = pc->mem_cgroup; - ClearPageCgroupUsed(pc); - } - unlock_page_cgroup(pc); + memcg = pc->mem_cgroup; + pc->flags = 0; /* * We trust that only if there is a memcg associated with the page, it -- 1.9.2 -- 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>