+ mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9.patch

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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153112561772.4097.11011071937553113003.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |   15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9 mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -599,13 +599,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(g
 		if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY) {
 			clear_bit(i, map->map);
 			/*
-			 * After the shrinker reported that it had no objects to free,
-			 * but before we cleared the corresponding bit in the memcg
-			 * shrinker map, a new object might have been added. To make
-			 * sure, we have the bit set in this case, we invoke the
-			 * shrinker one more time and re-set the bit if it reports that
-			 * it is not empty anymore. The memory barrier here pairs with
-			 * the barrier in memcg_set_shrinker_bit():
+			 * After the shrinker reported that it had no objects to
+			 * free, but before we cleared the corresponding bit in
+			 * the memcg shrinker map, a new object might have been
+			 * added. To make sure, we have the bit set in this
+			 * case, we invoke the shrinker one more time and reset
+			 * the bit if it reports that it is not empty anymore.
+			 * The memory barrier here pairs with the barrier in
+			 * memcg_set_shrinker_bit():
 			 *
 			 * list_lru_add()     shrink_slab_memcg()
 			 *   list_add_tail()    clear_bit()
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are

memcg-remove-memcg_cgroup-id-from-idr-on-mem_cgroup_css_alloc-failure.patch
list_lru-combine-code-under-the-same-define.patch
mm-introduce-config_memcg_kmem-as-combination-of-config_memcg-config_slob.patch
mm-assign-id-to-every-memcg-aware-shrinker.patch
mm-assign-id-to-every-memcg-aware-shrinker-v9.patch
memcg-move-up-for_each_mem_cgroup-_tree-defines.patch
mm-assign-memcg-aware-shrinkers-bitmap-to-memcg.patch
mm-assign-memcg-aware-shrinkers-bitmap-to-memcg-v9.patch
mm-refactoring-in-workingset_init.patch
mm-refactoring-in-workingset_init-v9.patch
fs-refactoring-in-alloc_super.patch
fs-propagate-shrinker-id-to-list_lru.patch
list_lru-add-memcg-argument-to-list_lru_from_kmem.patch
list_lru-pass-dst_memcg-argument-to-memcg_drain_list_lru_node.patch
list_lru-pass-lru-argument-to-memcg_drain_list_lru_node.patch
mm-export-mem_cgroup_is_root.patch
mm-set-bit-in-memcg-shrinker-bitmap-on-first-list_lru-item-apearance.patch
mm-set-bit-in-memcg-shrinker-bitmap-on-first-list_lru-item-apearance-v9.patch
mm-iterate-only-over-charged-shrinkers-during-memcg-shrink_slab.patch
mm-iterate-only-over-charged-shrinkers-during-memcg-shrink_slab-v9.patch
mm-add-shrink_empty-shrinker-methods-return-value.patch
mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg.patch
mm-clear-shrinker-bit-if-there-are-no-objects-related-to-memcg-v9.patch

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