linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] mm: zswap: fix global shrinker memcg iteration

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Message-ID: <CAKEwX=MKbXw6=Qab_CR4c8pbSFyWERESFqhUUKXzeqJVMn8sCA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:09:52 -0700
From: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com>
To: Takero Funaki <flintglass@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, 
	Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@...ux.dev>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] mm: zswap: fix global shrinker memcg iteration

On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 9:08 AM Nhat Pham <nphamcs@...il.com> wrote:
>
> 5. At the end of the inner loop, the selected memcg is known to not
> have its cleaner started yet (since it is online with zswap_pools_lock
> held). Our selection will undo the cleaner and hold the memcg hostage
> forever.

/s/will undo/will not undo

My apologies - English is hard :)