linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH mmotm] memcg: fix mem_cgroup_update_mapped_file

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Message-Id: <20090430090646.a1443096.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:06:46 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH mmotm] memcg: fix mem_cgroup_update_mapped_file_stat
 oops

On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:13:33 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:

> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y cgroup_disable=memory
> bootup is oopsing in mem_cgroup_update_mapped_file_stat().  !SPARSEMEM
> is fine because its lookup_page_cgroup() contains an explicit check for
> NULL node_page_cgroup, but the SPARSEMEM version was missing a check for
> NULL section->page_cgroup.
> 
Ouch, it's curious this bug alive now.. thank you.

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

I think this patch itself is sane but.. Balbir, could you see "caller" ?
It seems strange.

> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
> ---
> Should go in as a fix to
> memcg-add-file-based-rss-accounting.patch
> but it's curious that's the first thing to suffer from this divergence.
> 
> Perhaps this is the wrong fix, and there should be an explicit
> mem_cgroup_disable() check somewhere else; but it would then seem
> dangerous that SPARSEMEM and !SPARSEMEM diverge in this way,
> and there are lots of lookup_page_cgroup NULL tests around.
> 
>  mm/page_cgroup.c |    2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> --- 2.6.30-rc3-mm1/mm/page_cgroup.c	2009-04-29 21:01:06.000000000 +0100
> +++ mmotm/mm/page_cgroup.c	2009-04-29 21:12:04.000000000 +0100
> @@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(s
>  	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
>  	struct mem_section *section = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
>  
> +	if (!section->page_cgroup)
> +		return NULL;
>  	return section->page_cgroup + pfn;
>  }
>  
> 

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