[PATCH v11 01/13] vmstat: add quiet_vmstat_sync function

From: Chris Metcalf
Date: Fri Mar 11 2016 - 17:10:59 EST


In commit f01f17d3705b ("mm, vmstat: make quiet_vmstat lighter")
the quiet_vmstat() function became asynchronous, in the sense that
the vmstat work was still scheduled to run on the core when the
function returned. For task isolation, we need a synchronous
version of the function that guarantees that the vmstat worker
will not run on the core on return from the function. Add a
quiet_vmstat_sync() function with that semantic.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/vmstat.h | 2 ++
mm/vmstat.c | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/vmstat.h b/include/linux/vmstat.h
index 73fae8c4a5fb..43b2f1c33266 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmstat.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmstat.h
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ extern void dec_zone_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item);
extern void __dec_zone_state(struct zone *, enum zone_stat_item);

void quiet_vmstat(void);
+void quiet_vmstat_sync(void);
void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu);
void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void);

@@ -251,6 +252,7 @@ static inline void __dec_zone_page_state(struct page *page,
static inline void refresh_zone_stat_thresholds(void) { }
static inline void cpu_vm_stats_fold(int cpu) { }
static inline void quiet_vmstat(void) { }
+static inline void quiet_vmstat_sync(void) { }

static inline void drain_zonestat(struct zone *zone,
struct per_cpu_pageset *pset) { }
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 084c6725b373..ff569246fcb5 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -1469,6 +1469,15 @@ void quiet_vmstat(void)
refresh_cpu_vm_stats(false);
}

+/*
+ * Synchronously quiet vmstat so the work is guaranteed not to run on return.
+ */
+void quiet_vmstat_sync(void)
+{
+ cpumask_set_cpu(smp_processor_id(), cpu_stat_off);
+ cancel_delayed_work_sync(this_cpu_ptr(&vmstat_work));
+ refresh_cpu_vm_stats(false);
+}

/*
* Shepherd worker thread that checks the
--
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