linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix percpu vmstats and vmevents flush

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Date:   Thu, 29 Aug 2019 20:40:14 +0000
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix percpu vmstats and vmevents flush

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:31:10PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Instead of using raw_cpu_read() use per_cpu() to read the actual data of
> the corresponding cpu otherwise we will be reading the data of the
> current cpu for the number of online CPUs.
> 
> Fixes: bb65f89b7d3d ("mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg")
> Fixes: c350a99ea2b1 ("mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmstats before releasing memcg")
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>

Ouch, thanks Shakeel!

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>