Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2020-08-04

Re: [PATCH] mm/memcg: remove useless check on page->mem_cgroup

From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2020-08-03 08:18:18
Also in: linux-mm, lkml

On Sat 01-08-20 11:58:41, Alex Shi wrote:

在 2020/7/31 下午11:16, Johannes Weiner 写道:
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 	if (!entry.val) {
 		memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_SWAP_FAIL);
Uncharged readahead pages are gone, but I'm not 100% sure uncharged
pages in general are gone. ISTR that the !page->mem_cgroup check in
mem_cgroup_uncharge() prevented a crash - although that is of course a
much broader interface, whereas the ones you change should only apply
to LRU pages (which are hopefully all charged).

Nevertheless, to avoid unnecessary crashes if we discover that we've
been wrong, how about leaving the branches for now, but adding a (new)
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE() to them?
Agreed!
Right, let's see if other unexcepted things happens, and then do actions.
So it's the patch:
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From 28893cf8e55b98665cce58c0ba6d54aeafb63a62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shi <alex.shi-KPsoFbNs7GizrGE5bRqYAgC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 10:43:55 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] mm/memcg: warning on !memcg after readahead page charged

Since readahead page is charged on memcg too, in theory we don't have to
check this exception now. Before safely remove them all, add a warning
for the unexpected !memcg.
I would find it useful to mention since when this assumption holds.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi-KPsoFbNs7GizrGE5bRqYAgC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <redacted>
Cc: Michal Hocko <redacted>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <redacted>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Cc: cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
---
 include/linux/mmdebug.h |  8 ++++++++
 mm/memcontrol.c         | 15 ++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmdebug.h b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
index 2ad72d2c8cc5..639e98a3384e 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmdebug.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmdebug.h
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@
 			BUG();						\
 		}							\
 	} while (0)
+#define VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(cond, page)				\
+	do {								\
+		if (unlikely(cond)) {					\
+			dump_page(page, "VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_PAGE(" __stringify(cond)")");\
+			WARN_ON_ONCE(cond);				\
+		}							\
This is a bit strange behavior. You dump page for each occasion but warn
only once. I would expect either "once" semantic for any output or just
dump on each occasion because if the whole point is to reduce to amount
of output then the above doesn't serve the purpose.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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