On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 1:09 PM Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 4/22/22 23:01, Vasily Averin wrote:
> > On 4/21/22 18:56, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 11:39 PM Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> @@ -1147,7 +1148,13 @@ static int __register_pernet_operations(struct list_head *list,
> >>> * setup_net() and cleanup_net() are not possible.
> >>> */
> >>> for_each_net(net) {
> >>> + struct mem_cgroup *old, *memcg = NULL;
> >>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> >>> + memcg = (net == &init_net) ? root_mem_cgroup : mem_cgroup_from_obj(net);
> >>
> >> memcg from obj is unstable, so you need a reference on memcg. You can
> >> introduce get_mem_cgroup_from_kmem() which works for both
> >> MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS and MEMCG_DATA_KMEM. For uncharged objects (like
> >> init_net) it should return NULL.
> >
> > Could you please elaborate with more details?
> > It seems to me mem_cgroup_from_obj() does everything exactly as you say:
> > - for slab objects it returns memcg taken from according slab->memcg_data
> > - for ex-slab objects (i.e. page->memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
> > page_memcg_check() returns NULL
> > - for kmem objects (i.e. page->memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM)
> > page_memcg_check() returns objcg->memcg
> > - in another cases
> > page_memcg_check() returns page->memcg_data,
> > so for uncharged objects like init_net NULL should be returned.
> >
> > I can introduce exported get_mem_cgroup_from_kmem(), however it should only
> > call mem_cgroup_from_obj(), perhaps under read_rcu_lock/unlock.
>
> I think I finally got your point:
> Do you mean I should use css_tryget(&memcg->css) for found memcg,
> like get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() does?
Yes.
