linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 21/22] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru

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Message-ID: <CAKgT0UeK3c4NjoJ7MQMxU20Bu0AZKZh73Cj4P_g5OSL6KaONhQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:09:56 -0700
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com>,
        Yang Shi <yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 21/22] mm/pgdat: remove pgdat lru_lock

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 5:59 PM Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com> wrote:
>
> Now pgdat.lru_lock was replaced by lruvec lock. It's not used anymore.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 -
>  mm/page_alloc.c        | 1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 36c1680efd90..8d7318ce5f62 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -735,7 +735,6 @@ struct deferred_split {
>
>         /* Write-intensive fields used by page reclaim */
>         ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)
> -       spinlock_t              lru_lock;
>
>  #ifdef CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT
>         /*
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index e028b87ce294..4d7df42b32d6 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -6721,7 +6721,6 @@ static void __meminit pgdat_init_internals(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>         init_waitqueue_head(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
>
>         pgdat_page_ext_init(pgdat);
> -       spin_lock_init(&pgdat->lru_lock);
>         lruvec_init(&pgdat->__lruvec);
>  }
>

This patch would probably make more sense as part of patch 18 since
you removed all of the users of this field there.