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Message-Id: <20090109120950.09f55ce5.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:09:50 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc:	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 Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:51:03 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:08:30 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 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)
> > 
> > 
> hmm, I don't think it's much simpler than this one(I don't want last_scanned_child
> to point to the mem itself, because it's not a "child").
> 
> This part will be re-written by your patch, but this patch is needed
> to fix a bug(I saw general protection fault), so let's fix one by one.
of course.

> I'll post my original version. It's well tested :)
> 
Ok, please go ahead.

Maybe create a patch agains "rc1" is better for all your fixes.
And please ask Andrew to "This is a bugfix and please put into fast-path" 

-Kame 




> Thanks,
> Daisuke Nishimura.
> 
> > 
> > ---
> >  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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