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From: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] memcg: clear pc->mem_cgorup if necessary.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:35:24 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABEgKgoJpv5YAvRQ82QL7RrrznGLFr-CD6=DWhw=VL5uWohxeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111219153738.GC1415@cmpxchg.org>

2011/12/20 Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:51:24PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> This is a preparation before removing a flag PCG_ACCT_LRU in page_cgroup
>> and reducing atomic ops/complexity in memcg LRU handling.
>>
>> In some cases, pages are added to lru before charge to memcg and pages
>> are not classfied to memory cgroup at lru addtion. Now, the lru where
>> the page should be added is determined a bit in page_cgroup->flags and
>> pc->mem_cgroup. I'd like to remove the check of flag.
>>
>> To handle the case pc->mem_cgroup may contain stale pointers if pages are
>> added to LRU before classification. This patch resets pc->mem_cgroup to
>> root_mem_cgroup before lru additions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
>
> The followup compilation fixes aside, I agree.  But the sites where
> the owner is actually reset are really not too obvious.  How about the
> comment patch below?
>
> Otherwise,
>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
>
> ---
> From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Subject: memcg: clear pc->mem_cgorup if necessary fix
>
> Add comments to the clearing sites.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Ah, yes. This seems better. Thank you.
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-20  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-14  7:47 [PATCH 0/4] memcg: simplify LRU handling KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-14  7:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] memcg: simplify page cache charging KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-16 22:28   ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-19  0:01     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-20 21:58       ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-21  0:01         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-19 15:04   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-20 15:33   ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-14  7:50 ` [PATCH 2/4] memcg: simplify corner case handling of LRU KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-19 15:14   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-20 15:05   ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-14  7:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] memcg: clear pc->mem_cgorup if necessary KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-16 22:30   ` Andrew Morton
2011-12-19 15:37   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-20  0:35     ` Hiroyuki Kamezawa [this message]
2011-12-20 15:56   ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-14  7:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] memcg: simplify LRU handling by new rule KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-19 15:48   ` Johannes Weiner
2011-12-20 16:16   ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-21  0:09     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-12-21  6:56       ` Michal Hocko
2011-12-19 15:56 ` [PATCH 0/4] memcg: simplify LRU handling Johannes Weiner

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