Mel Gorman 8ca559132a mm/memory_hotplug: remove broken locking of zone PCP structures during hot remove
zone_pcp_reset allegedly protects against a race with drain_pages using
local_irq_save but this is bogus.  local_irq_save only operates on the
local CPU.  If memory hotplug is running on CPU A and drain_pages is
running on CPU B, disabling IRQs on CPU A does not affect CPU B and
offers no protection.

This patch deletes IRQ disable/enable on the grounds that IRQs protect
nothing and assumes the existing hotplug paths guarantees the PCP cannot
be used after zone_pcp_enable().  That should be the case already
because all the pages have been freed and there is no page to put on the
PCP lists.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412090346.GQ3697@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-05 11:27:26 -07:00
2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00

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