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

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Message-Id: <20100913160822.0c2cd732.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 16:08:22 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	"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>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix race in file_mapped accouting flag
 management

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);
 	}

 done:

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