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-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c40
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3cd4f1e0bfb3..3734fd6d1132 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1447,32 +1447,6 @@ int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
}
/*
- * memcg->moving_account is used for checking possibility that some thread is
- * calling move_account(). When a thread on CPU-A starts moving pages under
- * a memcg, other threads should check memcg->moving_account under
- * rcu_read_lock(), like this:
- *
- * CPU-A CPU-B
- * rcu_read_lock()
- * memcg->moving_account+1 if (memcg->mocing_account)
- * take heavy locks.
- * synchronize_rcu() update something.
- * rcu_read_unlock()
- * start move here.
- */
-
-static void mem_cgroup_start_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- atomic_inc(&memcg->moving_account);
- synchronize_rcu();
-}
-
-static void mem_cgroup_end_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- atomic_dec(&memcg->moving_account);
-}
-
-/*
* A routine for checking "mem" is under move_account() or not.
*
* Checking a cgroup is mc.from or mc.to or under hierarchy of
@@ -5431,7 +5405,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_clear_mc(void)
mc.from = NULL;
mc.to = NULL;
spin_unlock(&mc.lock);
- mem_cgroup_end_move(from);
+
+ atomic_dec(&from->moving_account);
}
static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
@@ -5464,7 +5439,16 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
VM_BUG_ON(mc.precharge);
VM_BUG_ON(mc.moved_charge);
VM_BUG_ON(mc.moved_swap);
- mem_cgroup_start_move(from);
+
+ /*
+ * Signal mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() to take
+ * the memcg's move_lock while we're moving
+ * its pages to another memcg. Then wait for
+ * already started RCU-only updates to finish.
+ */
+ atomic_inc(&from->moving_account);
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
spin_lock(&mc.lock);
mc.from = from;
mc.to = memcg;