[PATCH v4 6/8] mm: vmscan: hold write lock to reparent shrinker nr_deferred

From: Qi Zheng
Date: Tue Mar 07 2023 - 01:58:45 EST


For now, reparent_shrinker_deferred() is the only holder
of read lock of shrinker_rwsem. And it already holds the
global cgroup_mutex, so it will not be called in parallel.

Therefore, in order to convert shrinker_rwsem to shrinker_mutex
later, here we change to hold the write lock of shrinker_rwsem
to reparent.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 9a5a3da5c8b5..7aaf6f94ac1b 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ void reparent_shrinker_deferred(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
parent = root_mem_cgroup;

/* Prevent from concurrent shrinker_info expand */
- down_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
for_each_node(nid) {
child_info = shrinker_info_protected(memcg, nid);
parent_info = shrinker_info_protected(parent, nid);
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ void reparent_shrinker_deferred(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
atomic_long_add(nr, &parent_info->nr_deferred[i]);
}
}
- up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
+ up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
}

static bool cgroup_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
--
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