linux-kernel - [PATCH] slub: fix memcg_propagate_slab

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Date:	Mon, 7 Apr 2014 14:50:07 +0400
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
To:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<cl@...ux-foundation.org>, <penberg@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: [PATCH] slub: fix memcg_propagate_slab_attrs

After creating a cache for a memcg we should initialize its sysfs attrs
with the values from its parent. That's what memcg_propagate_slab_attrs
is for. Currently it's broken - we clearly muddled root-vs-memcg caches
there. Let's fix it up.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
---
 mm/slub.c |   11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 09660b9ff5bd..9fc144f9a542 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5070,15 +5070,18 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(struct kmem_cache *s)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 	int i;
 	char *buffer = NULL;
+	struct kmem_cache *root_cache;
 
-	if (!is_root_cache(s))
+	if (is_root_cache(s))
 		return;
 
+	root_cache = s->memcg_params->root_cache;
+
 	/*
 	 * This mean this cache had no attribute written. Therefore, no point
 	 * in copying default values around
 	 */
-	if (!s->max_attr_size)
+	if (!root_cache->max_attr_size)
 		return;
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(slab_attrs); i++) {
@@ -5100,7 +5103,7 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(struct kmem_cache *s)
 		 */
 		if (buffer)
 			buf = buffer;
-		else if (s->max_attr_size < ARRAY_SIZE(mbuf))
+		else if (root_cache->max_attr_size < ARRAY_SIZE(mbuf))
 			buf = mbuf;
 		else {
 			buffer = (char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -5109,7 +5112,7 @@ static void memcg_propagate_slab_attrs(struct kmem_cache *s)
 			buf = buffer;
 		}
 
-		attr->show(s->memcg_params->root_cache, buf);
+		attr->show(root_cache, buf);
 		attr->store(s, buf, strlen(buf));
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.10.4

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