On Wed 30-04-14 16:25:40, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> There is a write barrier between setting pc->mem_cgroup and
> PageCgroupUsed, which was added to allow LRU operations to lookup the
> memcg LRU list of a page without acquiring the page_cgroup lock. But
> ever since 38c5d72f3ebe ("memcg: simplify LRU handling by new rule"),
> pages are ensured to be off-LRU while charging, so nobody else is
> changing LRU state while pc->mem_cgroup is being written.
This is quite confusing. Why do we have the lrucare path then?
The code is quite tricky so this deserves a more detailed explanation
IMO.
There are only 3 paths which check both the flag and mem_cgroup (
without page_cgroup_lock) get_mctgt_type* and mem_cgroup_page_lruvec AFAICS.
None of them have rmb so there was no guarantee about ordering anyway.
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Anyway, the change is welcome
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 9 ---------
> 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 34407d99262a..c528ae9ac230 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2823,14 +2823,6 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> }
>
> pc->mem_cgroup = memcg;
> - /*
> - * We access a page_cgroup asynchronously without lock_page_cgroup().
> - * Especially when a page_cgroup is taken from a page, pc->mem_cgroup
> - * is accessed after testing USED bit. To make pc->mem_cgroup visible
> - * before USED bit, we need memory barrier here.
> - * See mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(), etc.
> - */
> - smp_wmb();
> SetPageCgroupUsed(pc);
>
> if (lrucare) {
> @@ -3609,7 +3601,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head)
> for (i = 1; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++) {
> pc = head_pc + i;
> pc->mem_cgroup = memcg;
> - smp_wmb();/* see __commit_charge() */
> pc->flags = head_pc->flags & ~PCGF_NOCOPY_AT_SPLIT;
> }
> __this_cpu_sub(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS_HUGE],
> --
> 1.9.2
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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