On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 05:12:55PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > Sorry for updating the patchset so late. > > I've made some changes for the memory barrier thing, and I agree with > Michal that there can be improvement but can be a separate patch. > > If this version is ok for everyone, I'll send the whole patchset out > to Andrew. Can you please post an updated patch as reply to the original patch? It's a bit difficult to follow things. > ========================= > > Use css_get/put instead of mem_cgroup_get/put. > > We can't do a simple replacement, because here mem_cgroup_put() > is called during mem_cgroup_css_free(), while mem_cgroup_css_free() > won't be called until css refcnt goes down to 0. > > Instead we increment css refcnt in mem_cgroup_css_offline(), and > then check if there's still kmem charges. If not, css refcnt will > be decremented immediately, otherwise the refcnt won't be decremented > when kmem charges goes down to 0. > > v3: > - changed wmb() to smp_smb(), and moved it to memcg_kmem_mark_dead(), > and added comment. > > v2: > - added wmb() in kmem_cgroup_css_offline(), pointed out by Michal > - revised comments as suggested by Michal > - fixed to check if kmem is activated in kmem_cgroup_css_offline() > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> But let's please remove the barrier dancing. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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>