mm: memcg/slab: simplify memcg cache creation

Because the number of non-root kmem_caches doesn't depend on the number of
memory cgroups anymore and is generally not very big, there is no more
need for a dedicated workqueue.

Also, as there is no more need to pass any arguments to the
memcg_create_kmem_cache() except the root kmem_cache, it's possible to
just embed the work structure into the kmem_cache and avoid the dynamic
allocation of the work structure.

This will also simplify the synchronization: for each root kmem_cache
there is only one work.  So there will be no more concurrent attempts to
create a non-root kmem_cache for a root kmem_cache: the second and all
following attempts to queue the work will fail.

On the kmem_cache destruction path there is no more need to call the
expensive flush_workqueue() and wait for all pending works to be finished.
Instead, cancel_work_sync() can be used to cancel/wait for only one work.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-14-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index e716b80befc2..fd9fcdfb3789 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -45,12 +45,14 @@ struct kmem_cache {
  * @memcg_cache: pointer to memcg kmem cache, used by all non-root memory
  *		cgroups.
  * @root_caches_node: list node for slab_root_caches list.
+ * @work: work struct used to create the non-root cache.
  */
 struct memcg_cache_params {
 	struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
 
 	struct kmem_cache *memcg_cache;
 	struct list_head __root_caches_node;
+	struct work_struct work;
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_SLOB */