linux-kernel - [PATCH v14 01/18] memcg: make cache index determination more robust

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Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 16:16:50 +0400
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
To:	<dchinner@...hat.com>, <mhocko@...e.cz>, <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <devel@...nvz.org>,
	<glommer@...nvz.org>, <glommer@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: [PATCH v14 01/18] memcg: make cache index determination more robust

From: Glauber Costa <glommer@...nvz.org>

I caught myself doing something like the following outside memcg core:

	memcg_id = -1;
	if (memcg && memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg))
		memcg_id = memcg_cache_id(memcg);

to be able to handle all possible memcgs in a sane manner. In particular, the
root cache will have kmemcg_id = -1 (just because we don't call memcg_kmem_init
to the root cache since it is not limitable). We have always coped with that by
making sure we sanitize which cache is passed to memcg_cache_id. Although this
example is given for root, what we really need to know is whether or not a
cache is kmem active.

But outside the memcg core testing for root, for instance, is not trivial since
we don't export mem_cgroup_is_root. I ended up realizing that this tests really
belong inside memcg_cache_id. This patch moves a similar but stronger test
inside memcg_cache_id and make sure it always return a meaningful value.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...nvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index bf5e894..3408852 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3076,7 +3076,9 @@ void memcg_cache_list_add(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *cachep)
  */
 int memcg_cache_id(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
-	return memcg ? memcg->kmemcg_id : -1;
+	if (!memcg || !memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg))
+		return -1;
+	return memcg->kmemcg_id;
 }

 /*
-- 
1.7.10.4

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