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Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 18:51:10 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@...aro.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH resend 2/3] vmpressure: do not check for pending work to prevent from new work

because it is racy and it doesn't give us much anyway as schedule_work
handles this case already.

Brought-up-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
---
 mm/vmpressure.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
index f4ee6a1..192f973 100644
--- a/mm/vmpressure.c
+++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ void vmpressure(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	scanned = vmpr->scanned;
 	spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
 
-	if (scanned < vmpressure_win || work_pending(&vmpr->work))
+	if (scanned < vmpressure_win)
 		return;
 	schedule_work(&vmpr->work);
 }
-- 
1.8.3.2

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