linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memory hotplug: fix notiier chain return value (Was Re: 2.6.28-rc4 mem_cgroup_charge

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Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:11:09 -0800
From:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memory hotplug: fix notiier chain return value
	(Was Re: 2.6.28-rc4 mem_cgroup_charge_common panic)

On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:27 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Badari, I think you used SLUB. If so, page_cgroup's notifier callback was not
> called and newly allocated page's page_cgroup wasn't allocated.
> This is a fix. (notifier saw STOP_HERE flag added by slub's notifier.)

No. I wasn't using SLUB.

 # egrep "SLUB|SLAB" .config
CONFIG_SLAB=y
# CONFIG_SLUB is not set
CONFIG_SLABINFO=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set


I can test the patch and let you know.

Thanks,
Badari

> 
> I'm now testing modified kernel, which does alloc/free page_cgroup by notifier.
> (Usually, all page_cgroups are from bootmem and not freed.
>  so, modified a bit for test)
> 
> And I cannot reproduce panic. I think you do "real" memory hotplug other than
> online/offline and saw panic caused by this. 
> 
> Is this slub's behavior intentional ? page_cgroup's notifier has lower priority
> than slub, now.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Kame
> ==
> notifier callback's notifier_from_errno() just works well in error
> route. (It adds mask for "stop here")
> 
> Hanlder should return NOTIFY_OK in explict way.
> 
> Signed-off-by:KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  mm/page_cgroup.c |    5 ++++-
>  mm/slub.c        |    6 ++++--
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10/mm/slub.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10.orig/mm/slub.c
> +++ mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10/mm/slub.c
> @@ -3220,8 +3220,10 @@ static int slab_memory_callback(struct n
>  	case MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE:
>  		break;
>  	}
> -
> -	ret = notifier_from_errno(ret);
> +	if (ret)
> +		ret = notifier_from_errno(ret);
> +	else
> +		ret = NOTIFY_OK;
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10/mm/page_cgroup.c
> ===================================================================
> --- mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10.orig/mm/page_cgroup.c
> +++ mmotm-2.6.28-Nov10/mm/page_cgroup.c
> @@ -216,7 +216,10 @@ static int page_cgroup_callback(struct n
>  		break;
>  	}
> 
> -	ret = notifier_from_errno(ret);
> +	if (ret)
> +		ret = notifier_from_errno(ret);
> +	else
> +		ret = NOTIFY_OK;
> 
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> 

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