On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Hugh Dickins wrote:

On Tue, 9 Feb 2021, Johannes Weiner wrote:

quoted

Page writeback doesn't hold a page reference, which allows truncate to
free a page the second PageWriteback is cleared. This used to require
special attention in test_clear_page_writeback(), where we had to be
careful not to rely on the unstable page->memcg binding and look up
all the necessary information before clearing the writeback flag.

Since commit 073861ed77b6 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and
BUG_ON(PageWriteback)") test_clear_page_writeback() is called with an
explicit reference on the page, and this dance is no longer needed.

Use unlock_page_memcg() and dec_lruvec_page_stat() directly.

s/stat()/state()/

This is a nice cleanup: I hadn't seen that connection at all.

But I think you should take it further:
__unlock_page_memcg() can then be static in mm/memcontrol.c,
and its declarations deleted from include/linux/memcontrol.h?

And further: void lock_page_memcg(page), not returning memcg.

And further: delete __dec_lruvec_state() and dec_lruvec_state()
from include/linux/vmstat.h - unless you feel that every "inc"
ought to be matched by a "dec", even when unused.

quoted

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <redacted>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <redacted>

quoted

---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index eb34d204d4ee..f6c2c3165d4d 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c

@@ -2722,12 +2722,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
 int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
-	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 	int ret;
 
-	memcg = lock_page_memcg(page);
-	lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, page_pgdat(page));
+	lock_page_memcg(page);
 	if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
 		struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 		struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);

@@ -2755,11 +2752,11 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
 		ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
 	}
 	if (ret) {
-		dec_lruvec_state(lruvec, NR_WRITEBACK);
+		dec_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
 		dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
 		inc_node_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
 	}
-	__unlock_page_memcg(memcg);
+	unlock_page_memcg(page);
 	return ret;
 }
 

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