From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
To: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg: fix memory migration of shmem swapcache
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 11:49:36 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=rp=WZa7PP4V6anU0SQ3BM-RJQwiDu1fJuoDig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110106100923.24b1dd12.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Daisuke Nishimura
<nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:58:40 +0100
> Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 01:00:20PM +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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-06 2:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-05 4:00 Daisuke Nishimura
2011-01-05 4:48 ` Minchan Kim
2011-01-05 6:47 ` Daisuke Nishimura
2011-01-05 7:18 ` Minchan Kim
2011-01-06 0:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-01-06 2:51 ` Minchan Kim
2011-01-05 11:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-01-06 1:09 ` Daisuke Nishimura
2011-01-06 1:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-01-06 2:49 ` Minchan Kim [this message]
2011-01-06 3:34 ` [BUGFIX][PATCH v3] " Daisuke Nishimura
2011-01-06 5:42 ` Balbir Singh
2011-01-06 6:29 ` [BUGFIX][PATCH v4] " Daisuke Nishimura
2011-01-08 9:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2011-01-10 9:05 ` Balbir Singh
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