From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3306B006C for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:06:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wicmx19 with SMTP id mx19so91250223wic.1 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org (gum.cmpxchg.org. [85.214.110.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fr8si14217180wib.3.2015.04.27.12.06.29 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Johannes Weiner Subject: [PATCH 1/9] mm: oom_kill: remove unnecessary locking in oom_enable() Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:05:47 -0400 Message-Id: <1430161555-6058-2-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> In-Reply-To: <1430161555-6058-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> References: <1430161555-6058-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , Tetsuo Handa , Andrea Arcangeli , Dave Chinner , David Rientjes , Vlastimil Babka , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Setting oom_killer_disabled to false is atomic, there is no need for further synchronization with ongoing allocations trying to OOM-kill. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes --- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c index 2b665da..73763e4 100644 --- a/mm/oom_kill.c +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c @@ -488,9 +488,7 @@ bool oom_killer_disable(void) */ void oom_killer_enable(void) { - down_write(&oom_sem); oom_killer_disabled = false; - up_write(&oom_sem); } #define K(x) ((x) << (PAGE_SHIFT-10)) -- 2.3.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org