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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/vmscan.c | 8 |
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); } |