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authorJoshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>2025-06-02 09:23:40 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-07-09 22:42:02 -0700
commit1ec8a6e30e9c4ad06ea5e94536623c59c4ae2400 (patch)
treee0517ccb2f8938ed77d418d4426b1e6b7d970cb6 /mm/mempolicy.c
parent1e6b17b4237dacb02e9cfeaed35d889bbc9e8a84 (diff)
mm/mempolicy: skip unnecessary synchronize_rcu()
By unconditionally setting wi_state to NULL and conditionally calling synchronize_rcu(), we can save an unncessary call when there is no old_wi_state. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250602162345.2595696-2-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mempolicy.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mempolicy.c13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 3b1dfd08338b..b0619d0020c9 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -3703,18 +3703,15 @@ static void wi_state_free(void)
struct weighted_interleave_state *old_wi_state;
mutex_lock(&wi_state_lock);
-
old_wi_state = rcu_dereference_protected(wi_state,
lockdep_is_held(&wi_state_lock));
- if (!old_wi_state) {
- mutex_unlock(&wi_state_lock);
- return;
- }
-
rcu_assign_pointer(wi_state, NULL);
mutex_unlock(&wi_state_lock);
- synchronize_rcu();
- kfree(old_wi_state);
+
+ if (old_wi_state) {
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ kfree(old_wi_state);
+ }
}
static struct kobj_attribute wi_auto_attr =