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From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache()
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:23:58 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427065358.GB4454@balbir.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427095100.29173bc1.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>

* nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> [2009-04-27 09:51:00]:

> From: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
> 
> memcg: fix try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache()
> 
> This is a bugfix for commit 3c776e64660028236313f0e54f3a9945764422df(included 2.6.30-rc1).
> Used bit of swapcache is solid under page lock, but considering move_account,
> pc->mem_cgroup is not.
> 
> We need lock_page_cgroup() anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>

I think we need to start documenting the locks the
page_cgroup lock nests under.

If memcg_tasklist were a spinlock instead of mutex, could we use that
instead of page_cgroup lock, since we care only about task migration?

-- 
	Balbir

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-27  6:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090426231752.36498c90.d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp>
2009-04-27  0:51 ` [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache() Daisuke Nishimura
2009-04-27  1:14   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-27  6:53   ` Balbir Singh [this message]
2009-04-27  6:59     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-27  7:03       ` Balbir Singh
2009-04-27  7:08         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-04-27  7:17           ` Balbir Singh

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