Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 3/7/23 07:56, Qi Zheng wrote:
> Now there are no readers of shrinker_rwsem, so
> synchronize_shrinkers() does not need to hold the
> writer of shrinker_rwsem to wait for all running
> shinkers to complete, synchronize_srcu() is enough.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/vmscan.c | 8 ++------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index 7aaf6f94ac1b..ac7ab4aa344f 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -796,15 +796,11 @@ 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);
>  }