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Johannes Weiner
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Patch series "mm: push down lock_page_memcg()", v2. This patch (of 3): During charge moving, the pte lock and the page lock cover nearly all cases of stabilizing page_mapped(). The only exception is when we're looking at a non-present pte and find a page in the page cache or in the swapcache: if the page is mapped elsewhere, it can become unmapped outside of our control. For this reason, rmap needs lock_page_memcg(). We don't like cgroup-specific locks in generic MM code - especially in performance-critical MM code - and for a legacy feature that's unlikely to have many users left - if any. So remove the exception. Arguably that's better semantics anyway: the page is shared, and another process seems to be the more active user. Once we stop moving such pages, rmap doesn't need lock_page_memcg() anymore. The next patch will remove it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206171340.139790-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206171340.139790-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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