linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm, memcg: Decouple e{low,min} state mutations from protection checks

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Date:   Sat, 23 May 2020 00:27:24 +0800
From:   Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@...il.com>
To:     Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name>
Cc:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm, memcg: Decouple e{low,min} state mutations
 from protection checks

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 12:07 AM Chris Down <chris@...isdown.name> wrote:
>
> Chris Down writes:
> >Yafang Shao writes:
> >>I will do it.
> >>If no one has objection to my proposal, I will send it tomorrow.
> >
> >If the fixup patch works, just send that. Otherwise, sure.
>
> Oh, I see the other reply from Naresh now saying it didn't help.
>
> Sure, feel free to do that for now then while we work out what the real problem
> is.

Regarding the root cause, my guess is it makes a similar mistake that
I tried to fix in the previous patch that the direct reclaimer read a
stale protection value.  But I don't think it is worth to add another
fix. The best way is to revert this commit.

-- 
Thanks
Yafang