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Message-Id: <1322563925-1667-6-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:52:03 +0100
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 5/7] mm: page_cgroup: check page_cgroup arrays in lookup_page_cgroup() only when necessary

lookup_page_cgroup() is usually used only against pages that are used
in userspace.

The exception is the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM-only memcg check from the page
allocator: it can run on pages without page_cgroup descriptors
allocated when the pages are fed into the page allocator for the first
time during boot or memory hotplug.

Include the array check only when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is set and save the
unnecessary check in production kernels.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/page_cgroup.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_cgroup.c b/mm/page_cgroup.c
index a14655d..58405ca 100644
--- a/mm/page_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/page_cgroup.c
@@ -28,9 +28,16 @@ struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page)
 	struct page_cgroup *base;
 
 	base = NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_page_cgroup;
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+	/*
+	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
+	 * page can reach here before the page_cgroup arrays are
+	 * allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator
+	 * for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug.
+	 */
 	if (unlikely(!base))
 		return NULL;
-
+#endif
 	offset = pfn - NODE_DATA(page_to_nid(page))->node_start_pfn;
 	return base + offset;
 }
@@ -87,9 +94,16 @@ struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
 	struct mem_section *section = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
-
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+	/*
+	 * The sanity checks the page allocator does upon freeing a
+	 * page can reach here before the page_cgroup arrays are
+	 * allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator
+	 * for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug.
+	 */
 	if (!section->page_cgroup)
 		return NULL;
+#endif
 	return section->page_cgroup + pfn;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.6.4

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