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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/8] mm: memcg: lookup_page_cgroup (almost) never returns NULL
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:17:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111128091703.GB9356@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKTCnz=CObdw0z4Qf36=afwwApuTer5C4Jp21QUko-H__q-+aA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:33:31PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > From: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
> >
> > Pages have their corresponding page_cgroup descriptors set up before
> > they are used in userspace, and thus managed by a memory cgroup.
> >
> > The only time where lookup_page_cgroup() can return NULL is in the
> > page sanity checking code that executes while feeding pages into the
> > page allocator for the first time.
> >
> 
> This is a legacy check from the days when we allocated PC during fault
> time on demand. It might make sense to assert on !pc in DEBUG_VM mode
> at some point in the future

I don't think a BUG_ON bears more information than a null-pointer
dereference.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-23 15:42 [patch 0/8] mm: memcg fixlets for 3.3 Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 1/8] mm: oom_kill: remove memcg argument from oom_kill_task() Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 22:35   ` David Rientjes
2011-11-23 23:57   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:07   ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-28  0:37   ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 2/8] mm: unify remaining mem_cont, mem, etc. variable names to memcg Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 22:40   ` David Rientjes
2011-11-23 23:58   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:17   ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-28  0:42   ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 3/8] mm: memcg: clean up fault accounting Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:00   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:33   ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-24  9:51     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-28  0:45   ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 4/8] mm: memcg: lookup_page_cgroup (almost) never returns NULL Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:01   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:52   ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-24 10:05     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24 10:26       ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-28  9:15         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-28  9:34           ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-28 10:12             ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-28  7:03   ` Balbir Singh
2011-11-28  9:17     ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 5/8] mm: memcg: remove unneeded checks from newpage_charge() Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:04   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:04     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24 10:30       ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-24 11:58         ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 6/8] mm: memcg: remove unneeded checks from uncharge_page() Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:06   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:06     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24 10:34       ` Michal Hocko
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 7/8] mm: memcg: modify PageCgroupAcctLRU non-atomically Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 18:52   ` Hugh Dickins
2011-11-24  8:53     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:09   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  8:55     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-23 15:42 ` [patch 8/8] mm: memcg: modify PageCgroupCache non-atomically Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  0:13   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-11-24  9:13     ` Johannes Weiner
2011-11-24  6:09 ` [patch 0/8] mm: memcg fixlets for 3.3 Balbir Singh
2011-11-24  9:45   ` Johannes Weiner

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