linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in split_page

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Message-ID: <38903032-6075-954a-31e2-7ab609b4bb2e@huawei.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 11:38:26 +0800
From:   Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        <hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in
 split_page_memcg

On 2021/4/1 11:35, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 11:31:16AM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> On 2021/4/1 11:01, Muchun Song wrote:
>>> Christian Borntraeger reported a warning about "percpu ref
>>> (obj_cgroup_release) <= 0 (-1) after switching to atomic".
>>> Because we forgot to obtain the reference to the objcg and
>>> wrongly obtain the reference of memcg.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
>> Is a Fixes tag needed?
> 
> No, as the original patch hasn't been merged into the Linus's tree yet.
> So the fix can be simply squashed.
> 
> Btw, the fix looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> 

I see. Many thanks for explanation!

The code looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>

>>
>>> ---
>>>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 6 ++++++
>>>  mm/memcontrol.c            | 6 +++++-
>>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> index 0e8907957227..c960fd49c3e8 100644
>>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>>> @@ -804,6 +804,12 @@ static inline void obj_cgroup_get(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
>>>  	percpu_ref_get(&objcg->refcnt);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +static inline void obj_cgroup_get_many(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
>>> +				       unsigned long nr)
>>> +{
>>> +	percpu_ref_get_many(&objcg->refcnt, nr);
>>> +}
>>> +
>>>  static inline void obj_cgroup_put(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
>>>  {
>>>  	percpu_ref_put(&objcg->refcnt);
>>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> index c0b83a396299..64ada9e650a5 100644
>>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>>> @@ -3133,7 +3133,11 @@ void split_page_memcg(struct page *head, unsigned int nr)
>>>  
>>>  	for (i = 1; i < nr; i++)
>>>  		head[i].memcg_data = head->memcg_data;
>>> -	css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
>>> +
>>> +	if (PageMemcgKmem(head))
>>> +		obj_cgroup_get_many(__page_objcg(head), nr - 1);
>>> +	else
>>> +		css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
>>>
>>
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