linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/11] mm: shmem: do not try to uncharge known swapcache pages

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Date:	Mon, 9 Jul 2012 13:11:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/11] mm: shmem: do not try to uncharge known swapcache
 pages

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Once charged, swapcache pages can only be uncharged after they are
> removed from swapcache again.
> 
> Do not try to uncharge pages that are known to be in the swapcache, to
> allow future patches to remove checks for that in the uncharge code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> ---
>  mm/shmem.c |   11 ++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
> index ee1c5a2..d12b705 100644
> --- a/mm/shmem.c
> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
> @@ -302,8 +302,6 @@ static int shmem_add_to_page_cache(struct page *page,
>  		if (!expected)
>  			radix_tree_preload_end();
>  	}
> -	if (error)
> -		mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
>  	return error;
>  }
>  
> @@ -1184,11 +1182,14 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
>  		__set_page_locked(page);
>  		error = mem_cgroup_cache_charge(page, current->mm,
>  						gfp & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK);
> -		if (!error)
> -			error = shmem_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, index,
> -						gfp, NULL);
>  		if (error)
>  			goto decused;
> +		error = shmem_add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, index,
> +						gfp, NULL);
> +		if (error) {
> +			mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(page);
> +			goto decused;
> +		}
>  		lru_cache_add_anon(page);
>  
>  		spin_lock(&info->lock);
> -- 

I wanted to try this series out on mmotm before replying, and that
took a while; but the problems (some experimental RCU stuff, since
reverted; and Michal's wait_on_page_writeback in vmscan.c, I'll have
to investigate that later) were in mmotm rather than your series:
seems to be running fine under load now.

I've not reviewed, but definitely approve avoiding the temporary
extra charge in migration, and your other simplifications.

And I do approve this change, but selfishly withhold my Ack because
it's a subset of small shmem.c changes I was already lining up to
post, hoping still to sneak into 3.5.  We have a real bug in there
(charging to wrong memcg), and this cleanup comes along with that.
I'll post my version in an hour or two.

Hugh
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