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Date:	Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:56:12 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] memcg: clear pc->mem_cgorup if necessary.

On Wed 14-12-11 16:51:24, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> This is a preparation before removing a flag PCG_ACCT_LRU in page_cgroup
> and reducing atomic ops/complexity in memcg LRU handling.
> 
> In some cases, pages are added to lru before charge to memcg and pages
> are not classfied to memory cgroup at lru addtion. Now, the lru where
> the page should be added is determined a bit in page_cgroup->flags and
> pc->mem_cgroup. I'd like to remove the check of flag.
> 
> To handle the case pc->mem_cgroup may contain stale pointers if pages are
> added to LRU before classification. This patch resets pc->mem_cgroup to
> root_mem_cgroup before lru additions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

With Johannes' comments + ksm needs to include memcontrol.h I guess.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    5 +++++
>  mm/ksm.c                   |    1 +
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  mm/swap_state.c            |    1 +
>  4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index bd3b102..7428409 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  extern void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
>  					struct page *newpage);
>  
> +extern void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *page);
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
>  extern int do_swap_account;
>  #endif
> @@ -388,6 +389,10 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
>  				struct page *newpage)
>  {
>  }
> +
> +static inline void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *page);
> +{
> +}
>  #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT */
>  
>  #if !defined(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) || !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)
> diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
> index a6d3fb7..480983d 100644
> --- a/mm/ksm.c
> +++ b/mm/ksm.c
> @@ -1571,6 +1571,7 @@ struct page *ksm_does_need_to_copy(struct page *page,
>  
>  	new_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address);
>  	if (new_page) {
> +		mem_cgroup_reset_owner(new_page);
>  		copy_user_highpage(new_page, page, address, vma);
>  
>  		SetPageDirty(new_page);
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 7a857e8..2ae973d 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3024,6 +3024,20 @@ void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent)
>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * A function for resetting pc->mem_cgroup for newly allocated pages.
> + * This function should be called if the newpage will be added to LRU
> + * before start accounting.
> + */
> +void mem_cgroup_reset_owner(struct page *newpage)
> +{
> +	struct page_cgroup *pc;
> +
> +	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(newpage);
> +	VM_BUG_ON(PageCgroupUsed(pc));
> +	pc->mem_cgroup = root_mem_cgroup;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * mem_cgroup_move_swap_account - move swap charge and swap_cgroup's record.
>   * @entry: swap entry to be moved
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index 78cc4d1..747539e 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ struct page *read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
>  			new_page = alloc_page_vma(gfp_mask, vma, addr);
>  			if (!new_page)
>  				break;		/* Out of memory */
> +			mem_cgroup_reset_owner(new_page);
>  		}
>  
>  		/*
> -- 
> 1.7.4.1
> 
> 
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