On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 05:43:30PM GMT, Muchun Song wrote: > The obj_cgroup_memcg() is supposed to safe to prevent the returned > memory cgroup from being freed only when the caller is holding the > rcu read lock or objcg_lock or cgroup_mutex. It is very easy to > ignore thoes conditions when users call some upper APIs which call > obj_cgroup_memcg() internally like mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj() (See > the link below). So it is better to add lockdep assertion to > obj_cgroup_memcg() to find those issues ASAP. > > Because there is no user of obj_cgroup_memcg() holding objcg_lock > to make the returned memory cgroup safe, do not add objcg_lock > assertion (We should export objcg_lock if we really want to do). > Additionally, this is some internal implementation detail of memcg > and should not be accessible outside memcg code. > > Some users like __mem_cgroup_uncharge() do not care the lifetime > of the returned memory cgroup, which just want to know if the > folio is charged to a memory cgroup, therefore, they do not need > to hold the needed locks. In which case, introduce a new helper > folio_memcg_charged() to do this. Compare it to folio_memcg(), it > could eliminate a memory access of objcg->memcg for kmem, actually, > a really small gain. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240718083607.42068-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
