The patch titled Subject: memcg: remove activate_kmem_mutex has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: remove activate_kmem_mutex The activate_kmem_mutex is used to serialize memcg.kmem.limit updates, but we already serialize them with memcg_limit_mutex so let's remove the former. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 24 +++++------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2618,8 +2618,6 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *p */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(memcg_slab_mutex); -static DEFINE_MUTEX(activate_kmem_mutex); - /* * This is a bit cumbersome, but it is rarely used and avoids a backpointer * in the memcg_cache_params struct. @@ -3738,9 +3736,8 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cg } #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM -/* should be called with activate_kmem_mutex held */ -static int __memcg_activate_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - unsigned long nr_pages) +static int memcg_activate_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, + unsigned long nr_pages) { int err = 0; int memcg_id; @@ -3802,17 +3799,6 @@ out: return err; } -static int memcg_activate_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - unsigned long nr_pages) -{ - int ret; - - mutex_lock(&activate_kmem_mutex); - ret = __memcg_activate_kmem(memcg, nr_pages); - mutex_unlock(&activate_kmem_mutex); - return ret; -} - static int memcg_update_kmem_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long limit) { @@ -3835,14 +3821,14 @@ static int memcg_propagate_kmem(struct m if (!parent) return 0; - mutex_lock(&activate_kmem_mutex); + mutex_lock(&memcg_limit_mutex); /* * If the parent cgroup is not kmem-active now, it cannot be activated * after this point, because it has at least one child already. */ if (memcg_kmem_is_active(parent)) - ret = __memcg_activate_kmem(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); - mutex_unlock(&activate_kmem_mutex); + ret = memcg_activate_kmem(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX); + mutex_unlock(&memcg_limit_mutex); return ret; } #else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memcontrol-lockless-page-counters.patch mm-hugetlb_cgroup-convert-to-lockless-page-counters.patch kernel-res_counter-remove-the-unused-api.patch kernel-res_counter-remove-the-unused-api-fix.patch mm-memcontrol-convert-reclaim-iterator-to-simple-css-refcounting.patch mm-memcontrol-take-a-css-reference-for-each-charged-page.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-obsolete-kmemcg-pinning-tricks.patch mm-memcontrol-continue-cache-reclaim-from-offlined-groups.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-synchroneous-stock-draining-code.patch mm-introduce-single-zone-pcplists-drain.patch mm-page_isolation-drain-single-zone-pcplists.patch mm-cma-drain-single-zone-pcplists.patch mm-memory_hotplug-failure-drain-single-zone-pcplists.patch memcg-simplify-unreclaimable-groups-handling-in-soft-limit-reclaim.patch memcg-remove-activate_kmem_mutex.patch mm-memcontrol-uncharge-pages-on-swapout.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-unnecessary-pcg_memsw-memoryswap-charge-flag.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-unnecessary-pcg_mem-memory-charge-flag.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-unnecessary-pcg_used-pc-mem_cgroup-valid-flag.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html