From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A79B6B0087 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2011 04:26:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 10:26:13 +0100 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH v4] memcg: fix memory migration of shmem swapcache Message-ID: <20110108092613.GF4654@cmpxchg.org> References: <20110105130020.e2a854e4.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20110105115840.GD4654@cmpxchg.org> <20110106100923.24b1dd12.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20110106123415.895d6dfc.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> <20110106054200.GG3722@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20110106152911.db6c5b2c.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110106152911.db6c5b2c.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Minchan Kim , Andrew Morton , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , LKML , linux-mm List-ID: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 03:29:11PM +0900, Daisuke Nishimura wrote: > In current implimentation, mem_cgroup_end_migration() decides whether the page > migration has succeeded or not by checking "oldpage->mapping". > > But if we are tring to migrate a shmem swapcache, the page->mapping of it is > NULL from the begining, so the check would be invalid. > As a result, mem_cgroup_end_migration() assumes the migration has succeeded > even if it's not, so "newpage" would be freed while it's not uncharged. > > This patch fixes it by passing mem_cgroup_end_migration() the result of the > page migration. > > Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura > Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim > Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom policy in Canada: sign http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org