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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, kirill@shutemov.name,
	Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: revise the position of threshold index while unregistering event
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:35:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120405163530.a1a9c9f9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331035943-7456-1-git-send-email-handai.szj@taobao.com>

On Tue,  6 Mar 2012 20:12:23 +0800
Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com>
> 
> Index current_threshold should point to threshold just below or equal to usage.
> See below:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg00844.html

I have a bad feeling that I looked at a version of this patch
yesterday, but I can't find it.

> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4398,7 +4398,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event(struct cgroup *cgrp,
>  			continue;
>  
>  		new->entries[j] = thresholds->primary->entries[i];
> -		if (new->entries[j].threshold < usage) {
> +		if (new->entries[j].threshold <= usage) {
>  			/*
>  			 * new->current_threshold will not be used
>  			 * until rcu_assign_pointer(), so it's safe to increment

What were the runtime effects of this bug?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-05 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-06 12:12 [PATCH] memcg: revise the position of threshold index while unregistering event Sha Zhengju
2012-03-07 23:13 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2012-03-08  5:44 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-08  7:02   ` Sha Zhengju
2012-03-08  7:30     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-03-08  9:37       ` Sha Zhengju
2012-04-05 23:35 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-04-05 23:37   ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-06  3:59     ` Sha Zhengju
2012-04-06  4:04     ` [RESEND, PATCH] memcg: make threshold index in the right position Sha Zhengju

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