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Message-ID: <20160129083749.GB4952@esperanza>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2016 11:37:49 +0300
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
To:	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
CC:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmpressure: Fix subtree pressure detection

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 08:24:30PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 28.1.2016 16:55, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 27-01-16 19:28:57, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> >> When vmpressure is called for the entire subtree under pressure we
> >> mistakenly use vmpressure->scanned instead of vmpressure->tree_scanned
> >> when checking if vmpressure work is to be scheduled. This results in
> >> suppressing all vmpressure events in the legacy cgroup hierarchy. Fix
> >> it.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
> >> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
> > 
> > a = b += c made me scratch my head for a second but this looks correct
> 
> Ugh, it's actually a = b += a
> 
> While clever and compact, this will make scratch their head anyone looking at
> the code in the future. Is it worth it?

I'm just trying to be consistend with the !tree case, where we do
exactly the same.

Thanks,
Vladimir

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