linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix underflow of mapped

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Message-Id: <20100414105608.d40c70ab.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:56:08 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix underflow of mapped_file stat

On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:40:10 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:03:08 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > @@ -2563,6 +2565,15 @@ void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem
> > > >  	 */
> > > >  	if (ctype == MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED)
> > > >  		mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(target);
> > > > +	else {
> > > > +		/*
> > > > +		 * When a migrated file cache is remapped, it's not charged.
> > > > +		 * Verify it. Because we're under lock_page(), there are
> > > > +		 * no race with uncharge.
> > > > +		 */
> > > > +		if (page_mapped(target))
> > > > +			mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped(mem, target, 1);
> > > > +	}
> > > We cannot rely on page lock, because when we succeeded in page migration,
> > > "target" = "newpage" has already unlocked in move_to_new_page(). So the "target"
> > > can be removed from the radix-tree theoretically(it's not related to this
> > > underflow problem, though).
> > > Shouldn't we call lock_page(target) and check "if (!target->mapping)" to handle
> > > this case(maybe in another patch) ?
> > > 
> > Sounds reasonable. I think about that.
> > 
> 

Thinking again....new page is unlocked here. It means the new page may be
removed from radix-tree before commit_charge().

Haha, it seems totally wrong. please wait..

Thanks,
-Kame






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