linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix mem_cgroup

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:09:23 -0800
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix mem_cgroup_swapout() for THPs

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Tue 28-11-17 08:19:41, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>> The commit d6810d730022 ("memcg, THP, swap: make mem_cgroup_swapout()
>> support THP") changed mem_cgroup_swapout() to support transparent huge
>> page (THP). However the patch missed one location which should be
>> changed for correctly handling THPs. The resulting bug will cause the
>> memory cgroups whose THPs were swapped out to become zombies on
>> deletion.
>
> Very well spotted! Have you seen this triggering or you found it by the
> code inspection?
>

By code inspection.