[patch] memcg: remove memcg->reclaim_param_lock

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Wed Feb 09 2011 - 05:46:33 EST


The reclaim_param_lock is only taken around single reads and writes to
integer variables and is thus superfluous. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 18 +-----------------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6d007d6..236f627 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -218,12 +218,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
* per zone LRU lists.
*/
struct mem_cgroup_lru_info info;
-
- /*
- protect against reclaim related member.
- */
- spinlock_t reclaim_param_lock;
-
/*
* While reclaiming in a hierarchy, we cache the last child we
* reclaimed from.
@@ -1104,17 +1098,12 @@ static unsigned long long mem_cgroup_margin(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
static unsigned int get_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
struct cgroup *cgrp = memcg->css.cgroup;
- unsigned int swappiness;

/* root ? */
if (cgrp->parent == NULL)
return vm_swappiness;

- spin_lock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);
- swappiness = memcg->swappiness;
- spin_unlock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);
-
- return swappiness;
+ return memcg->swappiness;
}

static void mem_cgroup_start_move(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
@@ -1330,13 +1319,11 @@ mem_cgroup_select_victim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)

rcu_read_unlock();
/* Updates scanning parameter */
- spin_lock(&root_mem->reclaim_param_lock);
if (!css) {
/* this means start scan from ID:1 */
root_mem->last_scanned_child = 0;
} else
root_mem->last_scanned_child = found;
- spin_unlock(&root_mem->reclaim_param_lock);
}

return ret;
@@ -3842,9 +3829,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
return -EINVAL;
}

- spin_lock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);
memcg->swappiness = val;
- spin_unlock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);

cgroup_unlock();

@@ -4500,7 +4485,6 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
res_counter_init(&mem->memsw, NULL);
}
mem->last_scanned_child = 0;
- spin_lock_init(&mem->reclaim_param_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mem->oom_notify);

if (parent)
--
1.7.4

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