From 47a7c01c3efc6581f5dcca40928baeb38e1e40c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 08:15:12 +0000 Subject: Revert "mm: shrinkers: convert shrinker_rwsem to mutex" Patch series "revert shrinker_srcu related changes". This patch (of 7): This reverts commit cf2e309ebca7bb0916771839f9b580b06c778530. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_mutex back to shrinker_rwsem first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-2-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Yujie Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/super.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/super.c') diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c index 34afe411cf2b..04bc62ab7dfe 100644 --- a/fs/super.c +++ b/fs/super.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static char *sb_writers_name[SB_FREEZE_LEVELS] = { * One thing we have to be careful of with a per-sb shrinker is that we don't * drop the last active reference to the superblock from within the shrinker. * If that happens we could trigger unregistering the shrinker from within the - * shrinker path and that leads to deadlock on the shrinker_mutex. Hence we + * shrinker path and that leads to deadlock on the shrinker_rwsem. Hence we * take a passive reference to the superblock to avoid this from occurring. */ static unsigned long super_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink, -- cgit v1.2.3