linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm,memory_hotplug: Drop unneeded locking

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Date:   Mon, 31 May 2021 11:39:58 +0200
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH] mm,memory_hotplug: Drop unneeded locking

Currently, memory-hotplug code takes zone's span_writelock
and pgdat's resize_lock when resizing the node/zone's spanned
pages via {move_pfn_range_to_zone(),remove_pfn_range_from_zone()}
and when resizing node and zone's present pages via
adjust_present_page_count().

These locks are also taken during the initialization of the system
at boot time, where it protects parallel struct page initialization,
but they should not really be needed in memory-hotplug where all
operations are a) synchronized on device level and b) serialized by
the mem_hotplug_lock lock.

Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c | 11 -----------
 1 file changed, 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory_hotplug.c b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
index 075b34803fec..9edbc57055bf 100644
--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 	unsigned long pfn;
 	int nid = zone_to_nid(zone);
 
-	zone_span_writelock(zone);
 	if (zone->zone_start_pfn == start_pfn) {
 		/*
 		 * If the section is smallest section in the zone, it need
@@ -362,7 +361,6 @@ static void shrink_zone_span(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 			zone->spanned_pages = 0;
 		}
 	}
-	zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
 }
 
 static void update_pgdat_span(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
@@ -424,10 +422,8 @@ void __ref remove_pfn_range_from_zone(struct zone *zone,
 
 	clear_zone_contiguous(zone);
 
-	pgdat_resize_lock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 	shrink_zone_span(zone, start_pfn, start_pfn + nr_pages);
 	update_pgdat_span(pgdat);
-	pgdat_resize_unlock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 
 	set_zone_contiguous(zone);
 }
@@ -638,15 +634,10 @@ void __ref move_pfn_range_to_zone(struct zone *zone, unsigned long start_pfn,
 
 	clear_zone_contiguous(zone);
 
-	/* TODO Huh pgdat is irqsave while zone is not. It used to be like that before */
-	pgdat_resize_lock(pgdat, &flags);
-	zone_span_writelock(zone);
 	if (zone_is_empty(zone))
 		init_currently_empty_zone(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
 	resize_zone_range(zone, start_pfn, nr_pages);
-	zone_span_writeunlock(zone);
 	resize_pgdat_range(pgdat, start_pfn, nr_pages);
-	pgdat_resize_unlock(pgdat, &flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * Subsection population requires care in pfn_to_online_page().
@@ -739,9 +730,7 @@ void adjust_present_page_count(struct zone *zone, long nr_pages)
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	zone->present_pages += nr_pages;
-	pgdat_resize_lock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 	zone->zone_pgdat->node_present_pages += nr_pages;
-	pgdat_resize_unlock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 }
 
 int mhp_init_memmap_on_memory(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
-- 
2.16.3