linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: Only record foreign writebacks with dirty pages when memcg is not disabled

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:42:17 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     tj@...nel.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: Only record foreign writebacks with dirty pages
 when memcg is not disabled

On 09/23/19 at 04:30pm, Baoquan He wrote:
 
> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index ad8f1a397ae4..fa53f9d51205 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -1261,7 +1261,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath(struct page *page,
>  static inline void mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty(struct page *page,
>  						  struct bdi_writeback *wb)
>  {
> -	if (unlikely(&page->mem_cgroup->css != wb->memcg_css))
> +	if (unlikely(&page->mem_cgroup->css != wb->memcg_css)
> +		&& !mem_cgroup_disabled())

Sorry, this is the draft patch I was testing. Later I think this
had better be moved into mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath().

Not very sure about this. Will send a v2 to match the patch log.

>  		mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath(page, wb);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.2
>