Re: [patch 08/11] mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging

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On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:21:04AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>On Tue 10-07-12 14:10:21, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 05:20:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> >On Thu 05-07-12 02:45:00, Johannes Weiner wrote:
>> >> It does not matter to __mem_cgroup_try_charge() if the passed mm is
>> >> NULL or init_mm, it will charge the root memcg in either case.
>> 
>> You can also change the comment in __mem_cgroup_try_charge :
>> 
>> "if so charge the init_mm" => "if so charge the root memcg"
>
>This is already in place:
>"
>If mm is NULL and the caller doesn't pass a valid memcg pointer, that is
>treated as a charge to root_mem_cgroup.
>"

IIUC, if still keep comment "if so charge the init_mm" is not correct,
since pages in pagecache aren't mapped into any processes' ptes, 
so mm is NULL, and these pages which in pagecache are not belong 
to init_mm, the comment should be changed. :-)

>> 
>> >> 
>> >> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
>> >
>> >> ---
>> >>  mm/memcontrol.c |    5 -----
>> >>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> >> 
>> >> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> >> index 418b47d..6fe4101 100644
>> >> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> >> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> >> @@ -2766,8 +2766,6 @@ int mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
>> >>  		ret = 0;
>> >>  	return ret;
>> >>  charge_cur_mm:
>> >> -	if (unlikely(!mm))
>> >> -		mm = &init_mm;
>> >>  	ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, mask, 1, memcgp, true);
>> >>  	if (ret == -EINTR)
>> >>  		ret = 0;
>> >> @@ -2832,9 +2830,6 @@ int mem_cgroup_cache_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
>> >>  	if (PageCompound(page))
>> >>  		return 0;
>> >>  
>> >> -	if (unlikely(!mm))
>> >> -		mm = &init_mm;
>> >> -
>> >>  	if (!PageSwapCache(page))
>> >>  		ret = mem_cgroup_charge_common(page, mm, gfp_mask, type);
>> >>  	else { /* page is swapcache/shmem */
>> >> -- 
>> >> 1.7.7.6
>> >> 
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Michal Hocko
>> >SUSE Labs
>> >SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
>> >Lihovarska 1060/12
>> >190 00 Praha 9    
>> >Czech Republic
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>Michal Hocko
>SUSE Labs
>SUSE LINUX s.r.o.
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>190 00 Praha 9    
>Czech Republic

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