On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:12:38AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 17:16 +0800, Yong Zhang wrote:
> > Looking at commit 4799401f [memcg: Fix race condition in
> > memcg_check_events() with this_cpu usage], we just want
> > to disable migration. So use the right API in -rt. This
> > will cure below warning.
> >
>
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++--
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 6aff93c..afa1954 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_target_update(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int target)
> > */
> > static void memcg_check_events(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct page *page)
> > {
> > - preempt_disable();
> > + migrate_disable();
>
> No this won't work. Not even for -rt. If we disable migration but not
> preemption, then two tasks can take this path. And the checks in
> __memcg_event_check() will be corrupted because nothing is protecting
> the updates from two tasks going into the same path.
I assumed that we only care about migration, but obviously I'm wrong.
>
> Perhaps a local_lock would work.
Yeah, will try tglx's patch later.
Thanks,
Yong
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