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SubjectRe: [v3 PATCH 2/4] mm: move mem_cgroup_uncharge out of __page_cache_release()
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On 6/13/19 10:13 AM, Yang Shi wrote:
>
>
> On 6/13/19 4:39 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 05:56:47AM +0800, Yang Shi wrote:
>>> The later patch would make THP deferred split shrinker memcg aware, but
>>> it needs page->mem_cgroup information in THP destructor, which is
>>> called
>>> after mem_cgroup_uncharge() now.
>>>
>>> So, move mem_cgroup_uncharge() from __page_cache_release() to compound
>>> page destructor, which is called by both THP and other compound pages
>>> except HugeTLB.  And call it in __put_single_page() for single order
>>> page.
>>
>> If I read the patch correctly, it will change behaviour for pages with
>> NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR. Have you considered it? Are you sure it will not
>> break
>> anything?
>

Hi Kirill,

Did this solve your concern? Any more comments on this series?

Thanks,
Yang

> So far a quick search shows NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR is not used by any type
> of compound page. The HugeTLB code sets destructor to
> NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR when freeing hugetlb pages via hugetlb specific
> destructor.
>
> The prep_new_page() would call prep_compound_page() if __GFP_COMP is
> used, which sets dtor to COMPOUND_PAGE_DTOR by default.  Just hugetlb
> and THP set their specific dtors.
>
> And, it looks __put_compound_page() doesn't check if dtor is NULL or
> not at all.
>
>>
>

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