On Tue 09-02-21 14:01:26, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> alloc_page_buffers() currently uses get_mem_cgroup_from_page() for
> charging the buffers to the page owner, which does an rcu-protected
> page->memcg lookup and acquires a reference. But buffer allocation has
> the page lock held throughout, which pins the page to the memcg and
> thereby the memcg - neither rcu nor holding an extra reference during
> the allocation are necessary. Use a raw page_memcg() instead.
>
> This was the last user of get_mem_cgroup_from_page(), delete it.
>
> Reported-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Thanks!
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 4 ++--
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 -------
> mm/memcontrol.c | 23 -----------------------
> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 96c7604f69b3..dc5d3e22c493 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -847,7 +847,8 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
> if (retry)
> gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
>
> - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_page(page);
> + /* The page lock pins the memcg */
> + memcg = page_memcg(page);
> old_memcg = set_active_memcg(memcg);
>
> head = NULL;
> @@ -868,7 +869,6 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
> }
> out:
> set_active_memcg(old_memcg);
> - mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
> return head;
> /*
> * In case anything failed, we just free everything we got.
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index a8c7a0ccc759..a44b2d51aecc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -687,8 +687,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
>
> struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
>
> -struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page);
> -
> struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec(struct page *page);
> struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page);
> struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irqsave(struct page *page,
> @@ -1169,11 +1167,6 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> return NULL;
> }
>
> -static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
> -{
> - return NULL;
> -}
> -
> static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> {
> }
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 51778fa9b462..9e455815fb7a 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1048,29 +1048,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_mm);
>
> -/**
> - * get_mem_cgroup_from_page: Obtain a reference on given page's memcg.
> - * @page: page from which memcg should be extracted.
> - *
> - * Obtain a reference on page->memcg and returns it if successful. Otherwise
> - * root_mem_cgroup is returned.
> - */
> -struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
> -{
> - struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page_memcg(page);
> -
> - if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
> - return NULL;
> -
> - rcu_read_lock();
> - /* Page should not get uncharged and freed memcg under us. */
> - if (!memcg || WARN_ON_ONCE(!css_tryget(&memcg->css)))
> - memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
> - rcu_read_unlock();
> - return memcg;
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_page);
> -
> static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *active_memcg(void)
> {
> if (in_interrupt())
> --
> 2.30.0
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
