On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:50:53PM -0700, Greg Thelen wrote:

Both mem_cgroup_charge_statistics() and mem_cgroup_move_account() were
unnecessarily disabling preemption when adjusting per-cpu counters:
    preempt_disable()
    __this_cpu_xxx()
    __this_cpu_yyy()
    preempt_enable()

This change does not disable preemption and thus CPU switch is possible
within these routines.  This does not cause a problem because the total
of all cpu counters is summed when reporting stats.  Now both
mem_cgroup_charge_statistics() and mem_cgroup_move_account() look like:
    this_cpu_xxx()
    this_cpu_yyy()

Note that on non-x86, these operations themselves actually disable and
reenable preemption each time, so you trade a pair of add and sub on
x86

-	preempt_disable()
	__this_cpu_xxx()
	__this_cpu_yyy()
-	preempt_enable()

with

	preempt_disable()
	__this_cpu_xxx()
+	preempt_enable()
+	preempt_disable()
	__this_cpu_yyy()
	preempt_enable()

everywhere else.

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