From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com (mail-wg0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60746B0031 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:46:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id z12so5791504wgg.0 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zene.cmpxchg.org (zene.cmpxchg.org. [2a01:238:4224:fa00:ca1f:9ef3:caee:a2bd]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ds3si16205831wib.51.2014.07.15.08.46.52 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 15 Jul 2014 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:46:43 -0400 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [patch 13/13] mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API Message-ID: <20140715154643.GT29639@cmpxchg.org> References: <1403124045-24361-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <1403124045-24361-14-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> <20140715082545.GA9366@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20140715142350.GD9366@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20140715150937.GS29639@cmpxchg.org> <20140715151818.GE9366@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140715151818.GE9366@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Andrew Morton , Hugh Dickins , Tejun Heo , Vladimir Davydov , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 05:18:18PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 15-07-14 11:09:37, Johannes Weiner wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:23:50PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > On Tue 15-07-14 10:25:45, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > > > > @@ -2760,15 +2752,15 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, > > > > spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock); > > > > } > > > > > > > > - mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, anon, nr_pages); > > > > - unlock_page_cgroup(pc); > > > > - > > > > + local_irq_disable(); > > > > + mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(memcg, page, nr_pages); > > > > /* > > > > * "charge_statistics" updated event counter. Then, check it. > > > > * Insert ancestor (and ancestor's ancestors), to softlimit RB-tree. > > > > * if they exceeds softlimit. > > > > */ > > > > memcg_check_events(memcg, page); > > > > + local_irq_enable(); > > > > > > preempt_{enable,disbale} should be sufficient for > > > mem_cgroup_charge_statistics and memcg_check_events no? > > > The first one is about per-cpu accounting (and that should be atomic > > > wrt. IRQ on the same CPU) and the later one uses IRQ safe locks down in > > > mem_cgroup_update_tree. > > > > How could it be atomic wrt. IRQ on the local CPU when IRQs that modify > > the counters can fire on the local CPU? > > I meant that __this_atomic_add and __this_cpu_inc should be atomic wrt. IRQ. > We do not care that an IRQ might jump in between two per-cpu operations. > This is racy from other CPUs anyway. It's really about a single RMW (+=) being interrupted by an IRQ. this_cpu_ guarantees IRQ-atomicity, but __this_cpu_ does not. We could probably migrate this code over to this_cpu and get rid of the IRQ disabling later, because, as you said, we don't care about being interrupted between separate counter updates. -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org