Re: fs/buffer.c: WARNING: alloc_page_buffers while mke2fs

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 4:29 PM Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:22:00 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > doesn't corrupt its state.
> > >
> > > I.e. this is safe:
> > >
> > >   process:                            interrupt:
> > >   old = current->active_memcg
> > >                                       old = current->active_memcg
> > >                                       current->active_memcg = new
> > >                                       allocate
> > >                                       current->active_memcg = old
> > >   current->active_memcg = new
> > >   return old
> > >
> > > This is safe as well:
> > >
> > >   process:                            interrupt:
> > >   old = current->active_memcg
> > >   current->active_memcg = new
> > >                                       old = current->active_memcg
> > >                                       current->active_memcg = new
> > >                                       allocate
> > >                                       current->active_memcg = old
> > >   return old
> >
> > Yes, you are right. Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> Dan, I dropped the three-patch series
>
> loop-use-worker-per-cgroup-instead-of-kworker.patch
> mm-charge-active-memcg-when-no-mm-is-set.patch
> loop-charge-i-o-to-mem-and-blk-cg.patch
>
> When convenient, could you please prepend Johannes' patch to the
> series, retest and resend?  While doing so, please figure out why you
> didn't also see this warning in your testing and make the appropriate
> changes!
>

Hi Dan, did you get the chance to follow up on Andrew's request?

Shakeel




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