The patch titled Subject: memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for writeback tracking has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-writeback-tracking.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-writeback-tracking.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for writeback tracking Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:23:01 -0700 During the era of memcg charge migration, the kernel has to be make sure that the writeback stat updates do not race with the charge migration. Otherwise it might update the writeback stats of the wrong memcg. Now with the memcg charge migration gone, there is no more race for writeback stat updates and the previous locking can be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025012304.2473312-5-shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page-writeback.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-writeback-tracking +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -3083,7 +3083,6 @@ bool __folio_end_writeback(struct folio struct address_space *mapping = folio_mapping(folio); bool ret; - folio_memcg_lock(folio); if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) { struct inode *inode = mapping->host; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode); @@ -3114,7 +3113,6 @@ bool __folio_end_writeback(struct folio lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_WRITEBACK, -nr); zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, -nr); node_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_WRITTEN, nr); - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); return ret; } @@ -3127,7 +3125,6 @@ void __folio_start_writeback(struct foli VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_writeback(folio), folio); - folio_memcg_lock(folio); if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) { XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, folio_index(folio)); struct inode *inode = mapping->host; @@ -3168,7 +3165,6 @@ void __folio_start_writeback(struct foli lruvec_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_WRITEBACK, nr); zone_stat_mod_folio(folio, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING, nr); - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); access_ret = arch_make_folio_accessible(folio); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx are mm-optimize-truncation-of-shadow-entries.patch mm-optimize-invalidation-of-shadow-entries.patch mm-truncate-reset-xa_has_values-flag-on-each-iteration.patch memcg-add-tracing-for-memcg-stat-updates.patch memcg-add-tracing-for-memcg-stat-updates-v2.patch memcg-v1-fully-deprecate-move_charge_at_immigrate.patch memcg-v1-remove-charge-move-code.patch memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-dirty-tracking.patch memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-writeback-tracking.patch memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-mglru.patch memcg-v1-remove-memcg-move-locking-code.patch