linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Adding missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to __add_to_page_cache

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:36:31 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Adding missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to
 __add_to_page_cache_locked()

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 11:24:41PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 5c9d564317a5..aa0e0fb04670 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -835,6 +835,7 @@ noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
>  	XA_STATE(xas, &mapping->i_pages, offset);
>  	int huge = PageHuge(page);
>  	int error;
> +	bool charged = false;

I don't think we need this extra bool.

> @@ -896,6 +898,8 @@ noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
>  
>  	if (xas_error(&xas)) {
>  		error = xas_error(&xas);
> +		if (charged)
> +			mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
>  		goto error;
>  	}

Better:

-		goto error;
+		goto uncharge;
...
+uncharge:
+	if (!huge)
+		mem_cgroup_uncharge(page);
 error:
...