Thread (41 messages) 41 messages, 6 authors, 2021-03-08

Re: [v8 PATCH 05/13] mm: vmscan: use kvfree_rcu instead of call_rcu

From: Shakeel Butt <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-08 21:12:47
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Yang Shi [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:49 AM Roman Gushchin [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 10:13:04PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
quoted
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:13 PM Yang Shi [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Using kvfree_rcu() to free the old shrinker_maps instead of call_rcu().
We don't have to define a dedicated callback for call_rcu() anymore.

Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <redacted>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 2e753c2516fa..c2a309acd86b 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -192,11 +192,6 @@ static inline int shrinker_map_size(int nr_items)
        return (DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_items, BITS_PER_LONG) * sizeof(unsigned long));
 }

-static void free_shrinker_map_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
-{
-       kvfree(container_of(head, struct memcg_shrinker_map, rcu));
-}
-
 static int expand_one_shrinker_map(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                   int size, int old_size)
 {
@@ -219,7 +214,7 @@ static int expand_one_shrinker_map(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                memset((void *)new->map + old_size, 0, size - old_size);

                rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_map, new);
-               call_rcu(&old->rcu, free_shrinker_map_rcu);
+               kvfree_rcu(old);
Please use kvfree_rcu(old, rcu) instead of kvfree_rcu(old). The single
param can call synchronize_rcu().
Oh, I didn't know about this difference. Thank you for noticing!
BTW, I think I could keep you and Kirill's acked-by with this change
(using two params form kvfree_rcu) since the change seems trivial.
Once you change, you can add:

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <redacted>
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