mm: page-writeback: simplify memcg handling in test_clear_page_writeback()

Page writeback doesn't hold a page reference, which allows truncate to
free a page the second PageWriteback is cleared.  This used to require
special attention in test_clear_page_writeback(), where we had to be
careful not to rely on the unstable page->memcg binding and look up all
the necessary information before clearing the writeback flag.

Since commit 073861ed77b6 ("mm: fix VM_BUG_ON(PageTail) and
BUG_ON(PageWriteback)") test_clear_page_writeback() is called with an
explicit reference on the page, and this dance is no longer needed.

Use unlock_page_memcg() and dec_lruvec_page_state() directly.

This removes the last user of the lock_page_memcg() return value, change
it to void.  Touch up the comments in there as well.  This also removes
the last extern user of __unlock_page_memcg(), make it static.  Further,
it removes the last user of dec_lruvec_state(), delete it, along with a
few other unused helpers.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YCQbYAWg4nvBFL6h@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e064ac0d850a..06caac775abb 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2118,11 +2118,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_group(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
  * This function protects unlocked LRU pages from being moved to
  * another cgroup.
  *
- * It ensures lifetime of the returned memcg. Caller is responsible
- * for the lifetime of the page; __unlock_page_memcg() is available
- * when @page might get freed inside the locked section.
+ * It ensures lifetime of the locked memcg. Caller is responsible
+ * for the lifetime of the page.
  */
-struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+void lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
 {
 	struct page *head = compound_head(page); /* rmap on tail pages */
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
@@ -2132,21 +2131,15 @@ struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
 	 * The RCU lock is held throughout the transaction.  The fast
 	 * path can get away without acquiring the memcg->move_lock
 	 * because page moving starts with an RCU grace period.
-	 *
-	 * The RCU lock also protects the memcg from being freed when
-	 * the page state that is going to change is the only thing
-	 * preventing the page itself from being freed. E.g. writeback
-	 * doesn't hold a page reference and relies on PG_writeback to
-	 * keep off truncation, migration and so forth.
          */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
-		return NULL;
+		return;
 again:
 	memcg = page_memcg(head);
 	if (unlikely(!memcg))
-		return NULL;
+		return;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
 	local_irq_save(flags);
@@ -2155,7 +2148,7 @@ again:
 #endif
 
 	if (atomic_read(&memcg->moving_account) <= 0)
-		return memcg;
+		return;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&memcg->move_lock, flags);
 	if (memcg != page_memcg(head)) {
@@ -2164,24 +2157,17 @@ again:
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * When charge migration first begins, we can have locked and
-	 * unlocked page stat updates happening concurrently.  Track
-	 * the task who has the lock for unlock_page_memcg().
+	 * When charge migration first begins, we can have multiple
+	 * critical sections holding the fast-path RCU lock and one
+	 * holding the slowpath move_lock. Track the task who has the
+	 * move_lock for unlock_page_memcg().
 	 */
 	memcg->move_lock_task = current;
 	memcg->move_lock_flags = flags;
-
-	return memcg;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_page_memcg);
 
-/**
- * __unlock_page_memcg - unlock and unpin a memcg
- * @memcg: the memcg
- *
- * Unlock and unpin a memcg returned by lock_page_memcg().
- */
-void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+static void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	if (memcg && memcg->move_lock_task == current) {
 		unsigned long flags = memcg->move_lock_flags;