Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix use_hierarchy css_is_ancestor oops regression

Johannes Weiner
2012-06-10T22:15:37Z

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> If use_hierarchy is set, reclaim testing soon oopses in css_is_ancestor()
> called from __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() called from page_referenced():
> when processes are exiting, it's easy for mm_match_cgroup() to pass along
> a NULL memcg coming from a NULL mm->owner.
>
> Check for that in __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(). Return true or false?
> False because we cannot know if it was in the hierarchy, but also false
> because it's better not to count a reference from an exiting process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>

Looks like an older version of the patch that introduced it slipped
into the tree, Konstantin noted this problem during review. The final
version did

match = memcg && __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(root, memcg);

in the caller because of it.

Do you think it would be cleaner this way, since this is also the
place where that memcg is looked up, and so the "can return NULL"
handling after mem_cgroup_from_task() would be in the same place?

But either way,

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Thanks, Hugh!