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SubjectRe: [patch 7/8] mm: memcg: modify PageCgroupAcctLRU non-atomically
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:52:39AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>
> > From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
> >
> > This bit is protected by zone->lru_lock, there is no need for locked
> > operations when setting and clearing it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
>
> Unless there are special considerations which you have not mentioned at
> all in the description above, this 7/8 and the similar 8/8 are mistaken.
>
> The atomic operation is not for guaranteeing the setting and clearing
> of the bit in question: it's for guaranteeing that you don't accidentally
> set or clear any of the other bits in the same word when you're doing so,
> if another task is updating them at the same time as you're doing this.
>
> There are circumstances when non-atomic shortcuts can be taken, when
> you're sure the field cannot yet be visible to other tasks (we do that
> when setting PageLocked on a freshly allocated page, for example - but
> even then have to rely on others using get_page_unless_zero properly).
> But I don't think that's the case here.

I have no idea how I could oversee this. You are, of course, right.

That said, I *think* that it is safe for PageCgroupCache because
nobody else should be modifying any pc->flags concurrently:

PCG_LOCK: by definition exclusive and held during setting and clearing
PCG_CACHE

PCG_CACHE: serialized by PCG_LOCK

PCG_USED: serialized by PCG_LOCK

PCG_MIGRATION: serialized by PCG_LOCK

PCG_MOVE_LOCK: 1. update_page_stat() is only called against file
pages, and the page lock serializes charging against mapping. the
page is also charged before establishing a pte mapping, so an unmap
can not race with a charge. 2. split_huge_fixup runs against already
charged pages. 3. move_account is serialized both by LRU-isolation
during charging and PCG_LOCK

PCG_FILE_MAPPED: same as PCG_MOVE_LOCK's 1.

PCG_ACCT_LRU: pages are isolated from the LRU during charging

But all this is obviously anything but robust, and so I retract the
broken 7/8 and the might-actually-work 8/8.


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