On Mon 08-04-13 16:47:50, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 08-04-13 16:20:11, Li Zefan wrote: > [...] > > @@ -5299,6 +5300,26 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *cgroup_css_from_dir(struct file *f, int id) > > return css ? css : ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); > > } > > > > +/** > > + * cgroup_is_ancestor - test "root" cgroup is an ancestor of "child" > > + * @child: the cgroup to be tested. > > + * @root: the cgroup supposed to be an ancestor of the child. > > + * > > + * Returns true if "root" is an ancestor of "child" in its hierarchy. > > + */ > > +bool cgroup_is_ancestor(struct cgroup *child, struct cgroup *root) > > +{ > > + int depth = child->depth; > > Is this functionality helpful for other controllers but memcg? > css_is_ancestor is currently used only by memcg code AFAICS and we can > get the same functionality easily by using something like: And as it turned out using css_is_ancestor is not correct. Here is a patch to fix the issue. I will leave the decision whether cgroup_is_ancestor makes sense even without users to you. Would you be willing to take this into your current series so that we to not clash over that code? --- >From 684e90bf2fcd5e0f376a3c7bb0176c1267add7df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 19:46:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree relies on css_is_ancestor if hierarchy is enabled for ages. This, however, is not correct because use_hierarchy doesn't need to be true all the way up the cgroup hierarchy. Consider the following example: root (use_hierarchy=0) \ A (use_hierarchy=0) \ B (use_hierarchy=1) \ C (use_hierarchy=1) __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(A, C) would return true even though C is not from the same hierarchy subtree. The bug shouldn't be critical but at least dump_tasks might print unrelated tasks (via task_in_mem_cgroup). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index f608546..177bec2 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1470,9 +1470,12 @@ bool __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(const struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg, { if (root_memcg == memcg) return true; - if (!root_memcg->use_hierarchy || !memcg) + if (!memcg) return false; - return css_is_ancestor(&memcg->css, &root_memcg->css); + while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) + if (memcg == root_memcg) + return true; + return false; } static bool mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(const struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg, -- 1.7.10.4 -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>