From: Johannes Weiner Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 23:06:01 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: memcontrol: remove ordering between pc->mem_cgroup and PageCgroupUsed X-Git-Tag: v3.17-rc1~94^2~151 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a2385eef9f28fb5260c48c45fc8fe01f1da70a6;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-exynos.git mm: memcontrol: remove ordering between pc->mem_cgroup and PageCgroupUsed There is a write barrier between setting pc->mem_cgroup and PageCgroupUsed, which was added to allow LRU operations to lookup the memcg LRU list of a page without acquiring the page_cgroup lock. But ever since commit 38c5d72f3ebe ("memcg: simplify LRU handling by new rule"), pages are ensured to be off-LRU while charging, so nobody else is changing LRU state while pc->mem_cgroup is being written, and there are no read barriers anymore. Remove the unnecessary write barrier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 07908ea..c31bc40 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2795,14 +2795,6 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, } pc->mem_cgroup = memcg; - /* - * We access a page_cgroup asynchronously without lock_page_cgroup(). - * Especially when a page_cgroup is taken from a page, pc->mem_cgroup - * is accessed after testing USED bit. To make pc->mem_cgroup visible - * before USED bit, we need memory barrier here. - * See mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(), etc. - */ - smp_wmb(); SetPageCgroupUsed(pc); if (lrucare) { @@ -3483,7 +3475,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head) for (i = 1; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++) { pc = head_pc + i; pc->mem_cgroup = memcg; - smp_wmb();/* see __commit_charge() */ pc->flags = head_pc->flags & ~PCGF_NOCOPY_AT_SPLIT; } __this_cpu_sub(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS_HUGE],