From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: cleanup racy sum avoidance code Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 08:57:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20210728012243.3369123-1-shakeelb@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.com; s=susede1; t=1627887479; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=tUbU3ZzRUqhVzk9x8OM8/LVLgiQh8b75TwEVEjI/pNU=; b=u9FnFt7I8zkmPHO6z9sNU8KK593faYfo5bs0tUNTJh16t19zT5bFXpimOXs3mueplDYVkw U5DyEemPVD3nA7/YaiJ3vdjc55ZZGbcA9LKNxBcuqOrkay0Qi9XsACNWIL8O3wU9HKL1UU RrRiqtqE9aWaxXTMGbj3wpsJj4eW0SM= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20210728012243.3369123-1-shakeelb-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Shakeel Butt Cc: Johannes Weiner , Roman Gushchin , Andrew Morton , cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On Tue 27-07-21 18:22:43, Shakeel Butt wrote: > We used to have per-cpu memcg and lruvec stats and the readers have to > traverse and sum the stats from each cpu. This summing was racy and may > expose transient negative values. So, an explicit check was added to > avoid such scenarios. Now these stats are moved to rstat infrastructure > and are no more per-cpu, so we can remove the fixup for transient > negative values. > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Michal Hocko > --- > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 15 ++------------- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > index 7028d8e4a3d7..5f2a39a43d47 100644 > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > @@ -991,30 +991,19 @@ static inline void mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, > > static inline unsigned long memcg_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int idx) > { > - long x = READ_ONCE(memcg->vmstats.state[idx]); > -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP > - if (x < 0) > - x = 0; > -#endif > - return x; > + return READ_ONCE(memcg->vmstats.state[idx]); > } > > static inline unsigned long lruvec_page_state(struct lruvec *lruvec, > enum node_stat_item idx) > { > struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn; > - long x; > > if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) > return node_page_state(lruvec_pgdat(lruvec), idx); > > pn = container_of(lruvec, struct mem_cgroup_per_node, lruvec); > - x = READ_ONCE(pn->lruvec_stats.state[idx]); > -#ifdef CONFIG_SMP > - if (x < 0) > - x = 0; > -#endif > - return x; > + return READ_ONCE(pn->lruvec_stats.state[idx]); > } > > static inline unsigned long lruvec_page_state_local(struct lruvec *lruvec, > -- > 2.32.0.432.gabb21c7263-goog -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs