linux-kernel - Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix race in file

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Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:08:03 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	gthelen@...gle.com,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix race in file_mapped accouting flag
 management

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:08:22 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:

> 
> I think this small race is not very critical but it's bug.
> We have this race since 2.6.34. 
> =
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> Now. memory cgroup accounts file-mapped by counter and flag.
> counter is working in the same way with zone_stat but FileMapped flag only
> exists in memcg (for helping move_account).
> 
> This flag can be updated wrongly in a case. Assume CPU0 and CPU1
> and a thread mapping a page on CPU0, another thread unmapping it on CPU1.
> 
>     CPU0                   		CPU1
> 				rmv rmap (mapcount 1->0)
>    add rmap (mapcount 0->1)
>    lock_page_cgroup()
>    memcg counter+1		(some delay)
>    set MAPPED FLAG.
>    unlock_page_cgroup()
> 				lock_page_cgroup()
> 				memcg counter-1
> 				clear MAPPED flag
> 
> In above sequence, counter is properly updated but FLAG is not.
> This means that representing a state by a flag which is maintained by
> counter needs some specail care.
> 
> To handle this, at claering a flag, this patch check mapcount directly and
> clear the flag only when mapcount == 0. (if mapcount >0, someone will make
> it to zero later and flag will be cleared.)
> 
> Reverse case, dec-after-inc cannot be a problem because page_table_lock()
> works well for it. (IOW, to make above sequence, 2 processes should touch
> the same page at once with map/unmap.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: lockless-update/mm/memcontrol.c
> ===================================================================
> --- lockless-update.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ lockless-update/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1485,7 +1485,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped(struc
>  		SetPageCgroupFileMapped(pc);
>  	} else {
>  		__this_cpu_dec(mem->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED]);
> -		ClearPageCgroupFileMapped(pc);
> +		if (page_mapped(page)) /* for race between dec->inc counter */
> +			ClearPageCgroupFileMapped(pc);
>  	}

This should be !page_mapped(), shouldn't it?

And your second patch _does_ have !page_mapped() here, which is why the
second patch didn't apply.

I tried to fix things up.  Please check.


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