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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 8c1ae7ea8dea..2b22a42d83c4 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -790,15 +790,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker); /** * synchronize_shrinkers - Wait for all running shrinkers to complete. * - * 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. + * This is useful to guarantee that all shrinker invocations have seen an + * update, before freeing memory. */ void synchronize_shrinkers(void) { - down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); atomic_inc(&shrinker_srcu_generation); synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); } |