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From:   Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:22:20 -0800
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Subject: Re: [v8 PATCH 05/13] mm: vmscan: use kvfree_rcu instead of call_rcu
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>, paulmck@kernel.org,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
        Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
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On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 8:49 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 10:13:04PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:13 PM Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Using kvfree_rcu() to free the old shrinker_maps instead of call_rcu().
> > > We don't have to define a dedicated callback for call_rcu() anymore.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/vmscan.c | 7 +------
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > index 2e753c2516fa..c2a309acd86b 100644
> > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> > > +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> > > @@ -192,11 +192,6 @@ static inline int shrinker_map_size(int nr_items)
> > >         return (DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_items, BITS_PER_LONG) * sizeof(unsigned long));
> > >  }
> > >
> > > -static void free_shrinker_map_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> > > -{
> > > -       kvfree(container_of(head, struct memcg_shrinker_map, rcu));
> > > -}
> > > -
> > >  static int expand_one_shrinker_map(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> > >                                    int size, int old_size)
> > >  {
> > > @@ -219,7 +214,7 @@ static int expand_one_shrinker_map(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> > >                 memset((void *)new->map + old_size, 0, size - old_size);
> > >
> > >                 rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_map, new);
> > > -               call_rcu(&old->rcu, free_shrinker_map_rcu);
> > > +               kvfree_rcu(old);
> >
> > Please use kvfree_rcu(old, rcu) instead of kvfree_rcu(old). The single
> > param can call synchronize_rcu().
>
> Oh, I didn't know about this difference. Thank you for noticing!

BTW, I think I could keep you and Kirill's acked-by with this change
(using two params form kvfree_rcu) since the change seems trivial.