The patch titled Subject: mm: list_lru: remove holding lru lock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-list_lru-remove-holding-lru-lock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: list_lru: remove holding lru lock Since commit e5bc3af7734f ("rcu: Consolidate PREEMPT and !PREEMPT synchronize_rcu()"), the critical section of spin lock can serve as an RCU read-side critical section which already allows readers that hold nlru->lock to avoid taking rcu lock. So just remove holding lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025124534.56345-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/list_lru.c | 11 ----------- 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-) --- a/mm/list_lru.c~mm-list_lru-remove-holding-lru-lock +++ a/mm/list_lru.c @@ -398,18 +398,7 @@ static int memcg_update_list_lru_node(st } memcpy(&new->lru, &old->lru, flex_array_size(new, lru, old_size)); - - /* - * The locking below allows readers that hold nlru->lock avoid taking - * rcu_read_lock (see list_lru_from_memcg_idx). - * - * Since list_lru_{add,del} may be called under an IRQ-safe lock, - * we have to use IRQ-safe primitives here to avoid deadlock. - */ - spin_lock_irq(&nlru->lock); rcu_assign_pointer(nlru->memcg_lrus, new); - spin_unlock_irq(&nlru->lock); - kvfree_rcu(old, rcu); return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are