The quilt patch titled Subject: memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for dirty tracking has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-dirty-tracking.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for dirty tracking Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:23:00 -0700 During the era of memcg charge migration, the kernel has to be make sure that the dirty stat updates do not race with the charge migration. Otherwise it might update the dirty stats of the wrong memcg. Now with the memcg charge migration gone, there is no more race for dirty stat updates and the previous locking can be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241025012304.2473312-4-shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/buffer.c | 5 ----- mm/page-writeback.c | 16 +++------------- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) --- a/fs/buffer.c~memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-dirty-tracking +++ a/fs/buffer.c @@ -736,15 +736,12 @@ bool block_dirty_folio(struct address_sp * Lock out page's memcg migration to keep PageDirty * synchronized with per-memcg dirty page counters. */ - folio_memcg_lock(folio); newly_dirty = !folio_test_set_dirty(folio); spin_unlock(&mapping->i_private_lock); if (newly_dirty) __folio_mark_dirty(folio, mapping, 1); - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); - if (newly_dirty) __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); @@ -1194,13 +1191,11 @@ void mark_buffer_dirty(struct buffer_hea struct folio *folio = bh->b_folio; struct address_space *mapping = NULL; - folio_memcg_lock(folio); if (!folio_test_set_dirty(folio)) { mapping = folio->mapping; if (mapping) __folio_mark_dirty(folio, mapping, 0); } - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); if (mapping) __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES); } --- a/mm/page-writeback.c~memcg-v1-no-need-for-memcg-locking-for-dirty-tracking +++ a/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -2743,8 +2743,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_dirty_folio); /* * Helper function for set_page_dirty family. * - * Caller must hold folio_memcg_lock(). - * * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts. */ static void folio_account_dirtied(struct folio *folio, @@ -2777,7 +2775,6 @@ static void folio_account_dirtied(struct /* * Helper function for deaccounting dirty page without writeback. * - * Caller must hold folio_memcg_lock(). */ void folio_account_cleaned(struct folio *folio, struct bdi_writeback *wb) { @@ -2795,9 +2792,8 @@ void folio_account_cleaned(struct folio * If warn is true, then emit a warning if the folio is not uptodate and has * not been truncated. * - * The caller must hold folio_memcg_lock(). It is the caller's - * responsibility to prevent the folio from being truncated while - * this function is in progress, although it may have been truncated + * It is the caller's responsibility to prevent the folio from being truncated + * while this function is in progress, although it may have been truncated * before this function is called. Most callers have the folio locked. * A few have the folio blocked from truncation through other means (e.g. * zap_vma_pages() has it mapped and is holding the page table lock). @@ -2841,14 +2837,10 @@ void __folio_mark_dirty(struct folio *fo */ bool filemap_dirty_folio(struct address_space *mapping, struct folio *folio) { - folio_memcg_lock(folio); - if (folio_test_set_dirty(folio)) { - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); + if (folio_test_set_dirty(folio)) return false; - } __folio_mark_dirty(folio, mapping, !folio_test_private(folio)); - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); if (mapping->host) { /* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */ @@ -2975,14 +2967,12 @@ void __folio_cancel_dirty(struct folio * struct bdi_writeback *wb; struct wb_lock_cookie cookie = {}; - folio_memcg_lock(folio); wb = unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin(inode, &cookie); if (folio_test_clear_dirty(folio)) folio_account_cleaned(folio, wb); unlocked_inode_to_wb_end(inode, &cookie); - folio_memcg_unlock(folio); } else { folio_clear_dirty(folio); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx are