Revert "mm: vmscan: make memcg slab shrink lockless"

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This reverts commit caa05325c9.

Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec
test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700b ("mm: vmscan: make
global slab shrink lockless").  The root cause is that SRCU has to be
careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits.
Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical
section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly.  That's why
unregister_shrinker() has become slower.

After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed
by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink.  So
revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first.

[1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/
[2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-7-qi.zheng@linux.dev
Reported-by: kernel test robot <yujie.liu@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@ya.ru>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Qi Zheng 2023-06-09 08:15:17 +00:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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