From: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> It is necessary for page_idle_get_page() to recheck PageLRU() after get_page_unless_zero(), but holding lru_lock around that serves no useful purpose, and adds to lru_lock contention: delete it.
See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20150504031722.GA2768@blaptop for the discussion that led to lru_lock there; but __page_set_anon_rmap() now uses WRITE_ONCE(), and I see no other risk in page_idle_clear_pte_refs() using rmap_walk() (beyond the risk of racing PageAnon->PageKsm, mostly but not entirely prevented by page_count() check in ksm.c's write_protect_page(): that risk being shared with page_referenced() and not helped by lru_lock). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex....@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov....@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minc...@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex....@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: linux...@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- mm/page_idle.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/page_idle.c b/mm/page_idle.c index 057c61df12db..64e5344a992c 100644 --- a/mm/page_idle.c +++ b/mm/page_idle.c @@ -32,19 +32,15 @@ static struct page *page_idle_get_page(unsigned long pfn) { struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn); - pg_data_t *pgdat; if (!page || !PageLRU(page) || !get_page_unless_zero(page)) return NULL; - pgdat = page_pgdat(page); - spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock); if (unlikely(!PageLRU(page))) { put_page(page); page = NULL; } - spin_unlock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock); return page; } -- 1.8.3.1
