From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail138.messagelabs.com (mail138.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CF035F0001 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:25:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4987D512.90001@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:24:34 +0800 From: Li Zefan MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM References: <20090202125240.GA918@balbir.in.ibm.com> <20090202140849.GB918@balbir.in.ibm.com> <49879DE5.8030505@cn.fujitsu.com> <20090203044143.GM918@balbir.in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: David Rientjes Cc: Balbir Singh , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" List-ID: David Rientjes wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Balbir Singh wrote: > >>>> diff --git a/mm/oom_kill.c b/mm/oom_kill.c >>>> index d3b9bac..b8e53ae 100644 >>>> --- a/mm/oom_kill.c >>>> +++ b/mm/oom_kill.c >>>> @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static int oom_kill_process(struct task_struct *p, gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, >>>> current->comm, gfp_mask, order, current->oomkilladj); >>>> task_lock(current); >>>> cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(current); >>>> + mem_cgroup_print_mem_info(mem); >>> I think this can be put outside the task lock. The lock is used to call task_cs() safely in >>> cpuset_print_task_mems_allowed(). >>> >> Thanks, I'll work on that in the next version. >> > > I was also wondering about this and assumed that it was necessary to > prevent the cgroup from disappearing during the oom. If task_lock() isn't > held, is the memcg->css.cgroup->dentry->d_name.name dereference always > safe without rcu? > The cgroup won't disappear, since mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() is called with memcg's css refcnt increased. :) -- 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