linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 02/20] mm/memcg: fold lock_page_lru into commit

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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 15:19:46 +0800
From:   Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>
To:     Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>
Cc:     cgroups@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mgorman@...hsingularity.net, tj@...nel.org, hughd@...gle.com,
        khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru, daniel.m.jordan@...cle.com,
        yang.shi@...ux.alibaba.com, willy@...radead.org,
        hannes@...xchg.org, lkp@...el.com,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 02/20] mm/memcg: fold lock_page_lru into commit_charge



在 2020/3/4 上午11:13, Hillf Danton 写道:
>>  	 * Nobody should be changing or seriously looking at
>>  	 * page->mem_cgroup at this point:
>> @@ -2633,8 +2611,13 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>>  	 */
>>  	page->mem_cgroup = memcg;
>>  
> Well it is likely to update memcg for page without lru_lock held even if
> more care is required, which is a change added in the current semantic and
> worth a line of words in log.
> 

the lru_lock is guard for lru list, not for page->mem_cgroup, seem no need to highlight this point. Do we?

Thanks
Alex