On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 2:38 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
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> > > memcg->objcg is rcu protected.
> > > objcg->memcg is a raw pointer, which is always pointing at a memory
> > > cgroup, but can be atomically swapped to the parent memory cgroup. So
> > > the caller
> >
> > What type of caller? The allocator?
>
> Basically whoever uses the pointer. Is it better to s/caller/user?
>
Yes 'user' feels better.
> >
[...]
> >
> > The normal stock can go to 32*nr_cpus*PAGE_SIZE. I am wondering if
> > just PAGE_SIZE is too less for obj stock.
>
> It works on top of the current stock of 32 pages, so it can grab these
> 32 pages without any atomic operations. And it should be easy to increase
> this limit if we'll see any benefits.
>
> Thank you for looking into the patchset!
>
> Andrew, can you, please, squash the following fix based on Shakeel's suggestions?
> Thanks!
>
> --
For the following squashed into the original patch:
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 7ed3af71a6fb..2499f78cf32d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
> int kmemcg_id;
> enum memcg_kmem_state kmem_state;
> struct obj_cgroup __rcu *objcg;
> - struct list_head objcg_list;
> + struct list_head objcg_list; /* list of inherited objcgs */
> #endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 70cd44b28db1..9f14b91700d9 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2843,7 +2843,7 @@ __always_inline struct obj_cgroup *get_obj_cgroup_from_current(void)
> struct obj_cgroup *objcg = NULL;
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>
> - if (unlikely(!current->mm))
> + if (unlikely(!current->mm && !current->active_memcg))
> return NULL;
>
> rcu_read_lock();
