mm: vmscan: use a new flag to indicate shrinker is registered
authorYang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Wed, 5 May 2021 01:36:29 +0000 (18:36 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 5 May 2021 18:27:23 +0000 (11:27 -0700)
commit41ca668a71e7b03743369a2c6d8b8edc1e943dc8
tree53630cc82f1c6e1fa2294e1d99a2c7f32120ee4a
parent468ab8437a97a953895856c3709e48b3067da13c
mm: vmscan: use a new flag to indicate shrinker is registered

Currently registered shrinker is indicated by non-NULL
shrinker->nr_deferred.  This approach is fine with nr_deferred at the
shrinker level, but the following patches will move MEMCG_AWARE
shrinkers' nr_deferred to memcg level, so their shrinker->nr_deferred
would always be NULL.  This would prevent the shrinkers from
unregistering correctly.

Remove SHRINKER_REGISTERING since we could check if shrinker is
registered successfully by the new flag.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210311190845.9708-9-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/shrinker.h
mm/vmscan.c