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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5/5] mm, memcg: always call __mod_node_page_state() with preempt disabled
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On 2021/7/29 22:39, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 5:58 AM Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> We should always ensure __mod_node_page_state() is called with preempt
>> disabled or percpu ops may manipulate the wrong cpu when preempt happened.
>>
>> Fixes: b4e0b68fbd9d ("mm: memcontrol: use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages")
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> index 70a32174e7c4..616d1a72ece3 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -697,8 +697,8 @@ void __mod_lruvec_page_state(struct page *page, enum node_stat_item idx,
>> memcg = page_memcg(head);
>> /* Untracked pages have no memcg, no lruvec. Update only the node */
>> if (!memcg) {
>> - rcu_read_unlock();
>> __mod_node_page_state(pgdat, idx, val);
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>
> This rcu is for page_memcg. The preemption and interrupts are disabled
> across __mod_lruvec_page_state().
>

I thought it's used to protect __mod_node_page_state(). Looks somewhat confusing for me.
Many thanks for pointing this out!

>> return;
>> }
>>
>> --
>> 2.23.0
>>
> .
>

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