From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@ilvokhin.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v2 0/8] mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 18:42:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adaFaMGbndSSMaZn@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1775654118.git.d@ilvokhin.com>
On Wed 08-04-26 13:33:15, Dmitry Ilvokhin wrote:
> Resending v2 to get feedback from folks who work with this code, as
> Andrew suggested.
>
> This series uses spinlock guard for zone lock across several mm
> functions to replace explicit lock/unlock patterns with automatic
> scope-based cleanup.
>
> This simplifies the control flow by removing 'flags' variables, goto
> labels, and redundant unlock calls.
>
> Patches are ordered by decreasing value. The first six patches simplify
> the control flow by removing gotos, multiple unlock paths, or 'ret'
> variables. The last two are simpler lock/unlock pair conversions that
> only remove 'flags' and can be dropped if considered unnecessary churn.
>
> Based on mm-stable.
>
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> - Andrew Morton raised concerns about binary size increase in v1.
> Peter Zijlstra has since fixed the underlying issue in the guards
> infrastructure in tip [1]. Note: the fix is not yet in mm-stable, so
> it needs to be applied first to reproduce these results. With that
> fix, bloat-o-meter on x86 defconfig shows a net decrease of 49 bytes
> (-0.12%) for page_alloc.o.
> - Rebased on mm-stable, since the patch this series depended on was
> dropped from mm-new.
> - Converted guard(zone_lock_irqsave)(zone) to
> guard(spinlock_irqsave)(&zone->lock).
> - Dropped redundant braces in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
> (Steven Rostedt)
>
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1774627568.git.d@ilvokhin.com/
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1772811429.git.d@ilvokhin.com/
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309164516.GE606826@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/
>
> Dmitry Ilvokhin (8):
> mm: use zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock()
> mm: use zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate()
> mm: use zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock()
> mm: use zone lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate()
> mm: use zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy()
> mm: use zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy()
> mm: use zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk()
> mm: use zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages()
>
> mm/page_alloc.c | 53 ++++++++++++-----------------------
> mm/page_isolation.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 75 deletions(-)
I like the resulting code. For the whole series.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-08 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-08 13:33 [RESEND PATCH v2 0/8] mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 1/8] mm: use zone lock guard in reserve_highatomic_pageblock() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 2/8] mm: use zone lock guard in unset_migratetype_isolate() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 3/8] mm: use zone lock guard in unreserve_highatomic_pageblock() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 4/8] mm: use zone lock guard in set_migratetype_isolate() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 5/8] mm: use zone lock guard in take_page_off_buddy() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 6/8] mm: use zone lock guard in put_page_back_buddy() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 7/8] mm: use zone lock guard in free_pcppages_bulk() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 13:33 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 8/8] mm: use zone lock guard in __offline_isolated_pages() Dmitry Ilvokhin
2026-04-08 16:42 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2026-04-08 20:07 ` [RESEND PATCH v2 0/8] mm: use spinlock guards for zone lock Andrew Morton
2026-04-09 11:36 ` Dmitry Ilvokhin
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