linux-kernel - Re: [-mm][PATCH 8/10] fix shmem page migration incorrectness on memcgroup

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:52:01 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"MinChan Kim" <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Lee Schermerhorn" <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Daisuke Nishimura" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 8/10] fix shmem page migration incorrectness on
 memcgroup

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:57:56 +0900
"MinChan Kim" <minchan.kim@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:41 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
> <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >> > mem_cgroup_uncharge() against old page is done after radix-tree-replacement.
> >> > And there were special handling to ingore swap-cache page. But, shmem can
> >> > be swap-cache and file-cache at the same time. Chekcing PageSwapCache() is
> >> > not correct here. Check PageAnon() instead.
> >>
> >> When/How shmem can be both swap-cache and file-cache ?
> >> I can't understand that situation.
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > see,
> >
> > shmem_writepage()
> >   -> add_to_swap_cache()
> >      -> SetPageSwapCache()
> >
> >
> > BTW: his file-cache mean !Anon, not mean !SwapBacked.
> 
> Hi KOSAKI-san.
> Thanks for explaining.
> 
> In the migrate_page_move_mapping, the page was already locked in unmap_and_move.
> Also, we have a lock for that page for calling shmem_writepage.
> 
> So I think race problem between shmem_writepage and
> migrate_page_move_mapping don't occur.
> But I am not sure I am right.
> 
> If I am wrong, could you tell me when race problem happen ? :)
> 
You are right. I misundestood the swap/shmem code. there is no race.
Hmm...

But situation is a bit complicated.
- shmem's page is charged as file-cache.
- shmem's swap cache is still charged by mem_cgroup_cache_charge() because
  it's implicitly (to memcg) converted to swap cache. 
- anon's swap cache is charged by mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page()

So, uncharging swap-cache of shmem by mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() is valid.
Checking PageSwapCache() was bad and Cheking PageAnon() is good.
(From maintainance view)

I think the patch is valid but my patch description contains wrong information.
Andrew, could you drop this ? I'll rewrite the patch description.

Sorry,
-Kame

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