oom: make oom_reaper_list single linked

Entries are only added/removed from oom_reaper_list at head so we can use a single linked list and hence save a word in task_struct. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
CamonZ · Mar 25, 2016 · 29c696e · 29c696e
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diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 #endif
 	int pagefault_disabled;
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
-	struct list_head oom_reaper_list;
+	struct task_struct *oom_reaper_list;
 #endif
 /* CPU-specific state of this task */
 	struct thread_struct thread;

diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ bool oom_killer_disabled __read_mostly;
  */
 static struct task_struct *oom_reaper_th;
 static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(oom_reaper_wait);
-static LIST_HEAD(oom_reaper_list);
+static struct task_struct *oom_reaper_list;
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(oom_reaper_lock);
 
 
@@ -528,13 +528,11 @@ static int oom_reaper(void *unused)
 	while (true) {
 		struct task_struct *tsk = NULL;
 
-		wait_event_freezable(oom_reaper_wait,
-				     (!list_empty(&oom_reaper_list)));
+		wait_event_freezable(oom_reaper_wait, oom_reaper_list != NULL);
 		spin_lock(&oom_reaper_lock);
-		if (!list_empty(&oom_reaper_list)) {
-			tsk = list_first_entry(&oom_reaper_list,
-					struct task_struct, oom_reaper_list);
-			list_del(&tsk->oom_reaper_list);
+		if (oom_reaper_list != NULL) {
+			tsk = oom_reaper_list;
+			oom_reaper_list = tsk->oom_reaper_list;
 		}
 		spin_unlock(&oom_reaper_lock);
 
@@ -553,7 +551,8 @@ static void wake_oom_reaper(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	get_task_struct(tsk);
 
 	spin_lock(&oom_reaper_lock);
-	list_add(&tsk->oom_reaper_list, &oom_reaper_list);
+	tsk->oom_reaper_list = oom_reaper_list;
+	oom_reaper_list = tsk;
 	spin_unlock(&oom_reaper_lock);
 	wake_up(&oom_reaper_wait);
 }