From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta12.messagelabs.com [216.82.250.247]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 788E3900138 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 04:54:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:54:04 +0200 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [patch] mm: memcg: close race between charge and putback Message-ID: <20110908085404.GA1316@redhat.com> References: <1315467622-9520-1-git-send-email-jweiner@redhat.com> <20110908173042.4a6f8ac0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110908173042.4a6f8ac0.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Andrew Morton , Ying Han , Daisuke Nishimura , Balbir Singh , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 05:30:42PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:40:22 +0200 > Johannes Weiner wrote: > > > There is a potential race between a thread charging a page and another > > thread putting it back to the LRU list: > > > > charge: putback: > > SetPageCgroupUsed SetPageLRU > > PageLRU && add to memcg LRU PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU > > > > I assumed that all pages are charged before added to LRU. > (i.e. event happens in charge->lru_lock->putback order.) > > But hmm, this assumption may be bad for maintainance. > Do you find a code which adds pages to LRU before charge ? > > Hmm, if there are codes which recharge the page to other memcg, > it will cause bug and my assumption may be harmful. Swap slots are read optimistically into swapcache and put to the LRU, then charged upon fault. Fuse apparently recharges uncharged LRU pages. That's why we have the lrucare stuff in the first place, no? Or did I misunderstand your question? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org