Thread (29 messages) 29 messages, 6 authors, 2020-01-14

Re: [PATCH v7 02/10] mm/memcg: fold lru_lock in lock_page_lru

From: Alex Shi <hidden>
Date: 2020-01-14 09:21:43
Also in: linux-mm, lkml


在 2020/1/14 上午12:34, Matthew Wilcox 写道:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 08:47:25PM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
quoted
在 2020/1/13 下午5:55, Konstantin Khlebnikov 写道:
quoted
quoted
quoted
That's wrong. Here PageLRU must be checked again under lru_lock.
Hi, Konstantin,

For logical remain, we can get the lock and then release for !PageLRU.
but I still can figure out the problem scenario. Would like to give more hints?
That's trivial race: page could be isolated from lru between

if (PageLRU(page))
and
spin_lock_irq(&pgdat->lru_lock);
yes, it could be a problem. guess the following change could helpful:
I will update it in new version.
quoted
+       if (lrucare) {
+               lruvec = lock_page_lruvec_irq(page);
+               if (likely(PageLRU(page))) {
+                       ClearPageLRU(page);
+                       del_page_from_lru_list(page, lruvec, page_lru(page));
+               } else {
+                       unlock_page_lruvec_irq(lruvec);
+                       lruvec = NULL;
+               }
What about a harder race to hit like a page being on LRU list A when you
look up the lruvec, then it's removed and added to LRU list B by the
time you get the lock?  At that point, you are holding a lock on the
wrong LRU list.  I think you need to check not just that the page
is still PageLRU but also still on the same LRU list.
Thanks for comments, Matthew!

We will check and lock lruvec after lock_page_memcg, so if it works well, a page
won't moved from one lruvec to another. Also the later debug do this check, to
see if lruvec changed.

If you mean lru list not lruvec, It seems there is noway to figure out the lru list
from a page now.

Thanks
Alex

Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help