From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx173.postini.com [74.125.245.173]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8DCE6B00F3 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:16:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e28smtp08.in.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:46:08 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (d28av01.in.ibm.com [9.184.220.63]) by d28relay01.in.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q24JG3fd4644878 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:46:04 +0530 Received: from d28av01.in.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d28av01.in.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q24JG2IA024822 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2012 00:46:03 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 0/9] memcg: add HugeTLB resource tracking In-Reply-To: <20120301144029.545a5589.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1330593380-1361-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120301144029.545a5589.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:45:55 +0530 Message-ID: <878vjgdvo4.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, mgorman@suse.de, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, dhillf@gmail.com, aarcange@redhat.com, mhocko@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, David Gibson On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:40:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:46:11 +0530 > "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > > > This patchset implements a memory controller extension to control > > HugeTLB allocations. It is similar to the existing hugetlb quota > > support in that, the limit is enforced at mmap(2) time and not at > > fault time. HugeTLB's quota mechanism limits the number of huge pages > > that can allocated per superblock. > > > > For shared mappings we track the regions mapped by a task along with the > > memcg. We keep the memory controller charged even after the task > > that did mmap(2) exits. Uncharge happens during truncate. For Private > > mappings we charge and uncharge from the current task cgroup. > > I haven't begin to get my head around this yet, but I'd like to draw > your attention to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/15/548. Hmm that's really serious bug. > That fix has > been hanging around for a while, but I haven't done anything with it > yet because I don't like its additional blurring of the separation > between hugetlb core code and hugetlbfs. I want to find time to sit > down and see if the fix can be better architected but haven't got > around to that yet. > > I expect that your patches will conflict at least mechanically with > David's, which is not a big issue. But I wonder whether your patches > will copy the same bug into other places, and whether you can think of > a tidier way of addressing the bug which David is seeing? > I will go through the implementation again and make sure the problem explained by David doesn't happen in the new code path added by the patch series. Thanks -aneesh -- 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 internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org