Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH mmotm] memcg fix swap accounting leak (v3)

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Mon Dec 15 2008 - 05:33:57 EST


On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>
> Fix swapin charge operation of memcg.
>
> @@ -1139,10 +1139,11 @@ void mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(str
> /*
> * Now swap is on-memory. This means this page may be
> * counted both as mem and swap....double count.
> - * Fix it by uncharging from memsw. This SwapCache is stable
> - * because we're still under lock_page().
> + * Fix it by uncharging from memsw. Basically, this SwapCache is stable
> + * under lock_page(). But in do_swap_page()::memory.c, reuse_swap_page()
> + * may call delete_from_swap_cache() before reach here.
> */
> - if (do_swap_account) {
> + if (do_swap_account && PageSwapCache(page)) {
> swp_entry_t ent = {.val = page_private(page)};
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> memcg = swap_cgroup_record(ent, NULL);

Yes, that addition looks good to me.

Hugh
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