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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 09:37:26 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     Lance Roy <ldr709@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/16] mm: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep

On 10/3/18 7:38 AM, Lance Roy wrote:
> lockdep_assert_held() is better suited to checking locking requirements,
> since it won't get confused when someone else holds the lock. This is
> also a step towards possibly removing spin_is_locked().

Agreed
> Signed-off-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Cc: <linux-mm@...ck.org>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>

> ---
>  mm/khugepaged.c | 4 ++--
>  mm/swap.c       | 3 +--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
> index a31d740e6cd1..80f12467ccb3 100644
> --- a/mm/khugepaged.c
> +++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
> @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static void collect_mm_slot(struct mm_slot *mm_slot)
>  {
>  	struct mm_struct *mm = mm_slot->mm;
>  
> -	VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 && !spin_is_locked(&khugepaged_mm_lock));
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
>  
>  	if (khugepaged_test_exit(mm)) {
>  		/* free mm_slot */
> @@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ static unsigned int khugepaged_scan_mm_slot(unsigned int pages,
>  	int progress = 0;
>  
>  	VM_BUG_ON(!pages);
> -	VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 && !spin_is_locked(&khugepaged_mm_lock));
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&khugepaged_mm_lock);
>  
>  	if (khugepaged_scan.mm_slot)
>  		mm_slot = khugepaged_scan.mm_slot;
> diff --git a/mm/swap.c b/mm/swap.c
> index 26fc9b5f1b6c..c89eb442c0bf 100644
> --- a/mm/swap.c
> +++ b/mm/swap.c
> @@ -824,8 +824,7 @@ void lru_add_page_tail(struct page *page, struct page *page_tail,
>  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page), page);
>  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageCompound(page_tail), page);
>  	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page_tail), page);
> -	VM_BUG_ON(NR_CPUS != 1 &&
> -		  !spin_is_locked(&lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->lru_lock));
> +	lockdep_assert_held(&lruvec_pgdat(lruvec)->lru_lock);
>  
>  	if (!list)
>  		SetPageLRU(page_tail);
>