Re: [patch] mm: memcg: close race between charge and putback

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu,  8 Sep 2011 09:40:22 +0200
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is a potential race between a thread charging a page and another
> thread putting it back to the LRU list:
> 
> charge:                         putback:
> SetPageCgroupUsed               SetPageLRU
> PageLRU && add to memcg LRU     PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU
> 

I assumed that all pages are charged before added to LRU.
(i.e. event happens in charge->lru_lock->putback order.)

But hmm, this assumption may be bad for maintainance.
Do you find a code which adds pages to LRU before charge ?

Hmm, if there are codes which recharge the page to other memcg,
it will cause bug and my assumption may be harmful.

> The order of setting one flag and checking the other is crucial,
> otherwise the charge may observe !PageLRU while the putback observes
> !PageCgroupUsed and the page is not linked to the memcg LRU at all.
> 
> Global memory pressure may fix this by trying to isolate and putback
> the page for reclaim, where that putback would link it to the memcg
> LRU again.  Without that, the memory cgroup is undeletable due to a
> charge whose physical page can not be found and moved out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@xxxxxxxxxx>


Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index d63dfb2..17708e1 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -990,6 +990,16 @@ void mem_cgroup_add_lru_list(struct page *page, enum lru_list lru)
>  		return;
>  	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
>  	VM_BUG_ON(PageCgroupAcctLRU(pc));
> +	/*
> +	 * putback:				charge:
> +	 * SetPageLRU				SetPageCgroupUsed
> +	 * smp_mb				smp_mb
> +	 * PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU	PageLRU && add to memcg LRU
> +	 *
> +	 * Ensure that one of the two sides adds the page to the memcg
> +	 * LRU during a race.
> +	 */
> +	smp_mb();
>  	if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc))
>  		return;
>  	/* Ensure pc->mem_cgroup is visible after reading PCG_USED. */
> @@ -1041,7 +1051,16 @@ static void mem_cgroup_lru_add_after_commit(struct page *page)
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
>  	struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
> -
> +	/*
> +	 * putback:				charge:
> +	 * SetPageLRU				SetPageCgroupUsed
> +	 * smp_mb				smp_mb
> +	 * PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU	PageLRU && add to memcg LRU
> +	 *
> +	 * Ensure that one of the two sides adds the page to the memcg
> +	 * LRU during a race.
> +	 */
> +	smp_mb();
>  	/* taking care of that the page is added to LRU while we commit it */
>  	if (likely(!PageLRU(page)))
>  		return;
> -- 
> 1.7.6
> 
> 

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