Re: [PATCH v2, 2/4] mm, memcg: Prevent memory.swappiness load/store tearing

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Mon 06-03-23 23:41:36, Yue Zhao wrote:
> The knob for cgroup v1 memory controller: memory.swappiness
> is not protected by any locking so it can be modified while it is used.
> This is not an actual problem because races are unlikely.
> But it is better to use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE to prevent compiler from
> doing anything funky.
> 
> The access of memcg->swappiness and vm_swappiness is lockless,
> so both of them can be concurrently set at the same time
> as we are trying to read them. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yue Zhao <findns94@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Thanks!

> ---
>  include/linux/swap.h | 8 ++++----
>  mm/memcontrol.c      | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
> index 209a425739a9..3f3fe43d1766 100644
> --- a/include/linux/swap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/swap.h
> @@ -620,18 +620,18 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
>  	/* Cgroup2 doesn't have per-cgroup swappiness */
>  	if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys))
> -		return vm_swappiness;
> +		return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
>  
>  	/* root ? */
>  	if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> -		return vm_swappiness;
> +		return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
>  
> -	return memcg->swappiness;
> +	return READ_ONCE(memcg->swappiness);
>  }
>  #else
>  static inline int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
>  {
> -	return vm_swappiness;
> +	return READ_ONCE(vm_swappiness);
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 06821e5f7604..dca895c66a9b 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4179,9 +4179,9 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
> -		memcg->swappiness = val;
> +		WRITE_ONCE(memcg->swappiness, val);
>  	else
> -		vm_swappiness = val;
> +		WRITE_ONCE(vm_swappiness, val);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.17.1

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs