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SubjectRe: [PATCH block/for-next] writeback: add tracepoints for cgroup foreign writebacks
Hello, Jan.

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 05:40:23PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > + TP_fast_assign(
> > + strncpy(__entry->name, dev_name(wb->bdi->dev), 32);
> > + __entry->bdi_id = wb->bdi->id;
> > + __entry->ino = page->mapping->host->i_ino;
> > + __entry->memcg_id = wb->memcg_css->id;
> > + __entry->cgroup_ino = __trace_wb_assign_cgroup(wb);
> > + __entry->page_cgroup_ino = page->mem_cgroup->css.cgroup->kn->id.ino;
> > + ),
>
> Are the page dereferences above safe? I suppose lock_page_memcg() protects
> the page->mem_cgroup->css.cgroup->kn->id dereference? But page->mapping
> does not seem to be protected by page lock?

Hah, I assumed it would work because there are preceding if
(page_mapping()) tests in the dirty paths -
e.g. __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(). Oh, regardless of that assumption,
I should have used page_mapping().

Thanks.

--
tejun

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