linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] CGroups: Use hierarchy

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Message-Id: <20081217141753.66ba248b.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:17:53 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	menage@...gle.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] CGroups: Use hierarchy_mutex in memory controller

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:30:57 -0800
menage@...gle.com wrote:

> This patch updates the memory controller to use its hierarchy_mutex
> rather than calling cgroup_lock() to protected against
> cgroup_mkdir()/cgroup_rmdir() from occurring in its hierarchy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
> 
Not doing any special test but passed usual test.

Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |   14 ++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09/mm/memcontrol.c
> ===================================================================
> --- hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * While reclaiming in a hiearchy, we cache the last child we
> -	 * reclaimed from. Protected by cgroup_lock()
> +	 * reclaimed from. Protected by hierarchy_mutex
>  	 */
>  	struct mem_cgroup *last_scanned_child;
>  	/*
> @@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(u
>  
>  /*
>   * This routine finds the DFS walk successor. This routine should be
> - * called with cgroup_mutex held
> + * called with hierarchy_mutex held
>   */
>  static struct mem_cgroup *
>  mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
> @@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgr
>  	/*
>  	 * Scan all children under the mem_cgroup mem
>  	 */
> -	cgroup_lock();
> +	mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
>  	if (list_empty(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children)) {
>  		ret = root_mem;
>  		goto done;
> @@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgr
>  
>  done:
>  	root_mem->last_scanned_child = ret;
> -	cgroup_unlock();
> +	mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> @@ -683,18 +683,16 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
>  	while (next_mem != root_mem) {
>  		if (next_mem->obsolete) {
>  			mem_cgroup_put(next_mem);
> -			cgroup_lock();
>  			next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_first_node(root_mem);
> -			cgroup_unlock();
>  			continue;
>  		}
>  		ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(next_mem, gfp_mask, noswap,
>  						   get_swappiness(next_mem));
>  		if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem))
>  			return 0;
> -		cgroup_lock();
> +		mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
>  		next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(next_mem, root_mem);
> -		cgroup_unlock();
> +		mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
>  	}
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
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