From 9a2385eef9f28fb5260c48c45fc8fe01f1da70a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:06:01 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: remove ordering between pc->mem_cgroup and PageCgroupUsed There is a write barrier between setting pc->mem_cgroup and PageCgroupUsed, which was added to allow LRU operations to lookup the memcg LRU list of a page without acquiring the page_cgroup lock. But ever since commit 38c5d72f3ebe ("memcg: simplify LRU handling by new rule"), pages are ensured to be off-LRU while charging, so nobody else is changing LRU state while pc->mem_cgroup is being written, and there are no read barriers anymore. Remove the unnecessary write barrier. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed