The patch titled
Subject: mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-vmscan-remove-shrinker_rwsem-from-synchronize_shrinkers.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-vmscan-remove-shrinker_rwsem-from-synchronize_shrinkers.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 19:28:18 +0800
Currently, the synchronize_shrinkers() is only used by TTM pool. It only
requires that no shrinkers run in parallel, and doesn't care about
registering and unregistering of shrinkers.
Since slab shrink is protected by SRCU, synchronize_srcu() is sufficient
to ensure that no shrinker is running in parallel. So the shrinker_rwsem
in synchronize_shrinkers() is no longer needed, just remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230313112819.38938-8-zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@xxxxx>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-remove-shrinker_rwsem-from-synchronize_shrinkers
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -790,15 +790,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
/**
* synchronize_shrinkers - Wait for all running shrinkers to complete.
*
- * This is equivalent to calling unregister_shrink() and register_shrinker(),
- * but atomically and with less overhead. This is useful to guarantee that all
- * shrinker invocations have seen an update, before freeing memory, similar to
- * rcu.
+ * This is useful to guarantee that all shrinker invocations have seen an
+ * update, before freeing memory.
*/
void synchronize_shrinkers(void)
{
- down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
- up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation);
synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-vmscan-add-a-map_nr_max-field-to-shrinker_info.patch
mm-vmscan-make-global-slab-shrink-lockless.patch
mm-vmscan-make-memcg-slab-shrink-lockless.patch
mm-shrinkers-make-count-and-scan-in-shrinker-debugfs-lockless.patch
mm-vmscan-hold-write-lock-to-reparent-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch
mm-vmscan-remove-shrinker_rwsem-from-synchronize_shrinkers.patch
mm-shrinkers-convert-shrinker_rwsem-to-mutex.patch
