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Message-Id: <20090109100830.3e9c90e0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:08:30 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"Daisuke Nishimura" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com, menage@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/4] memcg: fix for mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:08:01 +0900 (JST)
"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Daisuke Nishimura said:
> > If root_mem has no children, last_scaned_child is set to root_mem itself.
> > But after some children added to root_mem, mem_cgroup_get_next_node can
> > mem_cgroup_put the root_mem although root_mem has not been mem_cgroup_get.
> >
> > This patch fixes this behavior by:
> > - Set last_scanned_child to NULL if root_mem has no children or DFS search
> >   has returned to root_mem itself(root_mem is not a "child" of root_mem).
> >   Make mem_cgroup_get_first_node return root_mem in this case.
> >   There are no mem_cgroup_get/put for root_mem.
> > - Rename mem_cgroup_get_next_node to __mem_cgroup_get_next_node, and
> >   mem_cgroup_get_first_node to mem_cgroup_get_next_node.
> >   Make mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim call only new
> > mem_cgroup_get_next_node.
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
> 
> Hmm, seems necessary fix. Then, it's better to rebase my patch on to this.
> 
> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Maybe simpler one can be written but my patch remove all this out later....
> 
How about this ? (just an exmaple and not tested, sorry)



---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   52 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Index: mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmotm-2.6.28-Jan7/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *
 mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
 {
 	struct cgroup *cgroup, *curr_cgroup, *root_cgroup;
+	struct mem_cgroup *orig = root_mem->last_scanned_child;
 
 	curr_cgroup = curr->css.cgroup;
 	root_cgroup = root_mem->css.cgroup;
@@ -629,19 +630,15 @@ mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgro
 		/*
 		 * Walk down to children
 		 */
-		mem_cgroup_put(curr);
 		cgroup = list_entry(curr_cgroup->children.next,
 						struct cgroup, sibling);
 		curr = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
-		mem_cgroup_get(curr);
 		goto done;
 	}
 
 visit_parent:
 	if (curr_cgroup == root_cgroup) {
-		mem_cgroup_put(curr);
 		curr = root_mem;
-		mem_cgroup_get(curr);
 		goto done;
 	}
 
@@ -649,11 +646,9 @@ visit_parent:
 	 * Goto next sibling
 	 */
 	if (curr_cgroup->sibling.next != &curr_cgroup->parent->children) {
-		mem_cgroup_put(curr);
 		cgroup = list_entry(curr_cgroup->sibling.next, struct cgroup,
 						sibling);
 		curr = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
-		mem_cgroup_get(curr);
 		goto done;
 	}
 
@@ -664,7 +659,10 @@ visit_parent:
 	goto visit_parent;
 
 done:
+	if (orig)
+		mem_cgroup_put(orig);
 	root_mem->last_scanned_child = curr;
+	mem_cgroup_get(curr);
 	return curr;
 }
 
@@ -677,35 +675,25 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *
 mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
 {
 	struct cgroup *cgroup;
-	struct mem_cgroup *ret;
-	bool obsolete;
+	struct mem_cgroup *ret, *orig;
 
-	obsolete = mem_cgroup_is_obsolete(root_mem->last_scanned_child);
-
-	/*
-	 * Scan all children under the mem_cgroup mem
-	 */
 	mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
-	if (list_empty(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children)) {
-		ret = root_mem;
-		goto done;
-	}
-
-	if (!root_mem->last_scanned_child || obsolete) {
-
-		if (obsolete && root_mem->last_scanned_child)
-			mem_cgroup_put(root_mem->last_scanned_child);
+	orig = root_mem->last_scanned_child;
 
-		cgroup = list_first_entry(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children,
-				struct cgroup, sibling);
-		ret = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+	if (!orig) {
+		if (list_empty(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children)) {
+			ret = root_mem;
+		} else {
+			cgroup =
+			    list_first_entry(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children,
+					struct cgroup, sibling);
+			ret = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+		}
+		root_mem->last_scanned_child = ret;
 		mem_cgroup_get(ret);
-	} else
+	} else /* get_next_node will manage refcnt */
 		ret = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem->last_scanned_child,
 						root_mem);
-
-done:
-	root_mem->last_scanned_child = ret;
 	mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -2232,7 +2220,11 @@ static void mem_cgroup_pre_destroy(struc
 static void mem_cgroup_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
 				struct cgroup *cont)
 {
-	mem_cgroup_put(mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont));
+	struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont);
+
+	if (mem->last_scanned_child == mem)
+		mem_cgroup_put(mem);
+	mem_cgroup_put(mem);
 }
 
 static int mem_cgroup_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,

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