linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [BUG] memcg: fix false positive VM

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Message-ID: <20101123225244.GB22484@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:52:44 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutsemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BUG] memcg: fix false positive VM_BUG on non-SMP

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:22:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:02:55 +0100
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:16:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:48:50 +0200
> > > "Kirill A. Shutsemov" <kirill@...temov.name> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > > kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:2155!
> > > 
> > > This bug has been there for a year, from which I conclude people don't
> > > run memcg on uniprocessor machines a lot.
> > > 
> > > Which is a bit sad, really.  Small machines need resource control too,
> > > perhaps more than large ones..
> > 
> > Admittedly, this patch is compile-tested on UP only, but it should be
> > obvious enough.
> > 
> > ---
> > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> > Subject: [patch] memcg: fix page cgroup lock assert on UP
> > 
> > Page cgroup locking primitives use the bit spinlock API functions,
> > which do nothing on UP.
> > 
> > Thus, checking the lock state can not be done by looking at the bit
> > directly, but one has to go through the bit spinlock API as well.
> > 
> > This fixes a guaranteed UP bug, where asserting the page cgroup lock
> > bit as a sanity check crashes the kernel.
> > 
> 
> hm, your patch is the same as Kirill's, except you named it
> page_is_cgroup_locked() rather than is_page_cgroup_locked().  I guess
> page_is_cgroup_locked() is a bit better.

I had not sorted by threads and somehow assumed this was another
forward from you of a bugzilla report or something.  I didn't see
Kirill's patch until now.  Sorry!

Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
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