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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm: change memcg->oom_group access with atomic operations
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> On Feb 20, 2023, at 3:06 PM, Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 01:09:44PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 11:16:38PM +0800, Yue Zhao wrote:
>>> The knob for cgroup v2 memory controller: memory.oom.group
>>> will be read and written simultaneously by user space
>>> programs, thus we'd better change memcg->oom_group access
>>> with atomic operations to avoid concurrency problems.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Yue Zhao <findns94@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Yue!
>>
>> I'm curious, have any seen any real issues which your patch is solving?
>> Can you, please, provide a bit more details.
>>
>
> IMHO such details are not needed. oom_group is being accessed
> concurrently and one of them can be a write access. At least
> READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE is needed here.

Needed for what?

I mean it’s obviously not a big deal to put READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() here, but I struggle to imagine a scenario when it will make any difference. IMHO it’s easier to justify a proper atomic operation here, even if it’s most likely an overkill.

My question is very simple: the commit log mentions “… to avoid concurrency problems”, so I wonder what problems are these.

Also there are other similar cgroup interfaces without READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE().

Thanks!
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