mm: memcontrol: do not acquire page_cgroup lock for kmem pages
Kmem page charging and uncharging is serialized by means of exclusive
access to the page. Do not take the page_cgroup lock and don't set
pc->flags atomically.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c31bc40..a6a062e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3407,12 +3407,13 @@
memcg_uncharge_kmem(memcg, PAGE_SIZE << order);
return;
}
-
+ /*
+ * The page is freshly allocated and not visible to any
+ * outside callers yet. Set up pc non-atomically.
+ */
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
- lock_page_cgroup(pc);
pc->mem_cgroup = memcg;
- SetPageCgroupUsed(pc);
- unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
+ pc->flags = PCG_USED;
}
void __memcg_kmem_uncharge_pages(struct page *page, int order)
@@ -3422,19 +3423,11 @@
pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
- /*
- * Fast unlocked return. Theoretically might have changed, have to
- * check again after locking.
- */
if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc))
return;
- lock_page_cgroup(pc);
- if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
- memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
- ClearPageCgroupUsed(pc);
- }
- unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
+ memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
+ pc->flags = 0;
/*
* We trust that only if there is a memcg associated with the page, it