linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/8] RSS controller task migration support

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Date:	Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:59:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Patrick.Le-Dot@...l.net (Patrick.Le-Dot)
To:	balbir@...ibm.com
Cc:	ckrm-tech@...ts.sourceforge.net, dev@...nvz.org,
	haveblue@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, rohitseth@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 5/8] RSS controller task migration support

Hi Balbir,

The get_task_mm()/mmput(mm) usage is not correct.
With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y :

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:390
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
 [<c0116620>] __might_sleep+0x97/0x9c
 [<c0116a2e>] mmput+0x15/0x8b
 [<c01582f6>] install_arg_page+0x72/0xa9
 [<c01584b1>] setup_arg_pages+0x184/0x1a5
 ...

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/fork.c:390
in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
 [<c0116620>] __might_sleep+0x97/0x9c
 [<c0116a2e>] mmput+0x15/0x8b
 [<c01468ee>] do_no_page+0x255/0x2bd
 [<c0146b8d>] __handle_mm_fault+0xed/0x1ef
 [<c0111884>] do_page_fault+0x247/0x506
 [<c011163d>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x506
 [<c0348f99>] error_code+0x39/0x40

current->mm seems to be enough here.

In patch4, memctlr_dec_rss(page, mm) should be memctlr_dec_rss(page)
to compile correctly.

and in patch0 :
> 4. Disable cpuset's (to simply assignment of tasks to resource groups)
>         cd /container
>         echo 0 > cpuset_enabled

should be :
        echo 0 > cpuacct_enabled

Note : cpuacct_enabled is 0 by default.

Now the big question : to implement guarantee, the LRU needs to know
if a page can be removed from memory or not.
Any ideas to do that without any change in the struct page ?

Patrick

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