Re: [PATCH v1 5/6] memcg-v1: no need for memcg locking for MGLRU

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Sat Oct 26 2024 - 02:21:13 EST


On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 09:55:38PM GMT, Yu Zhao wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 7:23 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > While updating the generation of the folios, MGLRU requires that the
> > folio's memcg association remains stable. With the charge migration
> > deprecated, there is no need for MGLRU to acquire locks to keep the
> > folio and memcg association stable.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/vmscan.c | 11 -----------
> > 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > index 29c098790b01..fd7171658b63 100644
> > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > @@ -3662,10 +3662,6 @@ static void walk_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, struct lru_gen_mm_walk *walk)
> > if (walk->seq != max_seq)
> > break;
>
> Please remove the lingering `struct mem_cgroup *memcg` as well as
> folio_memcg_rcu(). Otherwise it causes both build and lockdep
> warnings.
>

Thanks for catching this. The unused warning is already fixed by Andrew,
I will fix the folio_memcg_rcu() usage.