mm: remove unnecessary use of atomic

The bottom 4 hunks are atomically changing memory to which there are no
aliases as it's freshly allocated, so there's no need to use atomic
operations.

The other hunks are just atomic_read and atomic_set, and do not involve
any read-modify-write.  The use of atomic_{read,set} doesn't prevent a
read/write or write/write race, so if a race were possible (I'm not saying
one is), then it would still be there even with atomic_set.

See:
http://digitalvampire.org/blog/index.php/2007/05/13/atomic-cargo-cults/

Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index be5f478..93b0239 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup_threshold {
 /* For threshold */
 struct mem_cgroup_threshold_ary {
        /* An array index points to threshold just below usage. */
-       atomic_t current_threshold;
+       int current_threshold;
        /* Size of entries[] */
        unsigned int size;
        /* Array of thresholds */
@@ -3412,7 +3412,7 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_threshold(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool swap)
         * If it's not true, a threshold was crossed after last
         * call of __mem_cgroup_threshold().
         */
-       i = atomic_read(&t->current_threshold);
+       i = t->current_threshold;
 
        /*
         * Iterate backward over array of thresholds starting from
@@ -3436,7 +3436,7 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_threshold(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool swap)
                eventfd_signal(t->entries[i].eventfd, 1);
 
        /* Update current_threshold */
-       atomic_set(&t->current_threshold, i - 1);
+       t->current_threshold = i - 1;
 unlock:
        rcu_read_unlock();
 }
@@ -3528,7 +3528,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
                        compare_thresholds, NULL);
 
        /* Find current threshold */
-       atomic_set(&thresholds_new->current_threshold, -1);
+       thresholds_new->current_threshold = -1;
        for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
                if (thresholds_new->entries[i].threshold < usage) {
                        /*
@@ -3536,7 +3536,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_usage_register_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
                         * until rcu_assign_pointer(), so it's safe to increment
                         * it here.
                         */
-                       atomic_inc(&thresholds_new->current_threshold);
+                       ++thresholds_new->current_threshold;
                }
        }
 
@@ -3607,7 +3607,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
        thresholds_new->size = size;
 
        /* Copy thresholds and find current threshold */
-       atomic_set(&thresholds_new->current_threshold, -1);
+       thresholds_new->current_threshold = -1;
        for (i = 0, j = 0; i < thresholds->size; i++) {
                if (thresholds->entries[i].eventfd == eventfd)
                        continue;
@@ -3619,7 +3619,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
                         * until rcu_assign_pointer(), so it's safe to increment
                         * it here.
                         */
-                       atomic_inc(&thresholds_new->current_threshold);
+                       ++thresholds_new->current_threshold;
                }
                j++;
        }