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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:02:16 +0100
From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] memcg: use __mod_memcg_state in drain_obj_stock
On 3/17/25 22:54, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 09:56:39PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
>> On 3/15/25 18:49, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>> > For non-PREEMPT_RT kernels, drain_obj_stock() is always called with irq
>> > disabled, so we can use __mod_memcg_state() instead of
>> > mod_memcg_state(). For PREEMPT_RT, we need to add memcg_stats_[un]lock
>> > in __mod_memcg_state().
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
>> > Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
>>
>> I've asked in the RFC and from Sebastian's answer I think my question was
>> misunderstod, so let me try again.
>>
>> After this patch we'll have from mod_memcg_state():
>>
>> mod_memcg_state()
>> local_irq_save(flags);
>> __mod_memcg_state()
>> memcg_stats_lock(); <- new and unnecessary?
>>
>> Instead of modifying __mod_memcg_state() we could be more targetted and just
>> do in drain_obj_stock():
>>
>> memcg_stats_lock();
>> __mod_memcg_state();
>> memcg_stats_unlock();
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>
> This seems unnecessary because this patch is adding the first user of
> __mod_memcg_state()
You mean first other user than mod_memcg_state() itself.
> but I think maintainability is better with
> memcg_stats_[un]lock() inside __mod_memcg_state().
>
> Let's take the example of __mod_memcg_lruvec_state(). It is being
> called from places where non-RT kernel, the irqs are disabled through
> spin_lock_irq*, so on RT kernel, the irq would not be disabled and
> thus explicitly need preemption disabled. What if in future
> __mod_memcg_state() is being used by a caller which assumes preemption
> is disabled through irq disable. The RT kernel would be buggy there.
>
> I am not sure if it is easy to force the future users to explicitly add
> memcg_stats_[un]lock() across the call to __mod_memcg_state().
I see the point. Well least memcg_stats_lock() isn't expensive, and it's a
no-op on non-debug !RT anyway.
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
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