Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup

Vladimir Davydov
2016-08-03T22:14:55Z

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 10:12:03AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 02:46:40PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
...
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 1c0aa59fd333..8c8e68becee9 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -4044,7 +4044,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_id_get_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > * The root cgroup cannot be destroyed, so it's refcount must
> > * always be >= 1.
> > */
> > - if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup) {
> > + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(memcg == root_mem_cgroup)) {
> > VM_BUG_ON(1);
> > break;
> > }
>
> The WARN_ON_ONCE() makes sense to me. But if we warn on all configs
> anyway, the VM_BUG_ON() doesn't provide any additional value. Anybody
> who is testing new code and enables DEBUG_VM should notice a warning
> without requiring the kernel to blow up in their face; it also allows
> them to check other state that is not necessarily available in BUG().

Personally, I prefer to crash the kernel as early as possible when
debugging to get vmcore for further investigation. Judging by
mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(), I'm not alone.