Revert "mm: vmscan: remove shrinker_rwsem from synchronize_shrinkers()"

This reverts commit 1643db98d9b314e0a592d152603094fbf7ab906e.

Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec
test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make
global slab shrink lockless").  The root cause is that SRCU has to be
careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits.
Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical
section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly.  That's why
unregister_shrinker() has become slower.

We will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to
continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink.  So we still need
shrinker_rwsem in synchronize_shrinkers() after reverting the
shrinker_srcu related changes.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 4730dba253c8..0ba0e1180f3f 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -831,11 +831,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
 /**
  * synchronize_shrinkers - Wait for all running shrinkers to complete.
  *
- * This is useful to guarantee that all shrinker invocations have seen an
- * update, before freeing memory.
+ * This is equivalent to calling unregister_shrink() and register_shrinker(),
+ * but atomically and with less overhead. This is useful to guarantee that all
+ * shrinker invocations have seen an update, before freeing memory, similar to
+ * rcu.
  */
 void synchronize_shrinkers(void)
 {
+	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation);
 	synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu);
 }