On Sat 01-06-13 02:11:51, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> @@ -2076,6 +2077,7 @@ static void memcg_wakeup_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> {
> /* for filtering, pass "memcg" as argument. */
> __wake_up(&memcg_oom_waitq, TASK_NORMAL, 0, memcg);
> + atomic_inc(&memcg->oom_wakeups);
> }
>
> static void memcg_oom_recover(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
[...]
> + prepare_to_wait(&memcg_oom_waitq, &owait.wait, TASK_KILLABLE);
> + /* Only sleep if we didn't miss any wakeups since OOM */
> + if (atomic_read(&memcg->oom_wakeups) == current->memcg_oom.wakeups)
> + schedule();
On the way home it occured to me that the ordering might be wrong here.
The wake up can be lost here.
__wake_up(memcg_oom_waitq)
<preempted>
prepare_to_wait
atomic_read(&memcg->oom_wakeups)
atomic_inc(oom_wakeups)
I guess we want atomic_inc before __wake_up, right?
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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