Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memcg: use rstat for non-hierarchical stats

[Johannes Weiner]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 05:36:45PM -0700, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 5:29 PM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - Fix a subtle bug where updating a local counter would be missed if it
> >   was cancelled out by a pending update from child memcgs.
> 
> 
> Johannes, I fixed a subtle bug here and I kept your Ack, I wasn't sure
> what the Ack retention policy should be here. A quick look at the fix
> would be great.

Ah, I found it:

> > @@ -5542,19 +5539,23 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, int cpu)
> >                         memcg->vmstats->state_pending[i] = 0;
> >
> >                 /* Add CPU changes on this level since the last flush */
> > +               delta_cpu = 0;
> >                 v = READ_ONCE(statc->state[i]);
> >                 if (v != statc->state_prev[i]) {
> > -                       delta += v - statc->state_prev[i];
> > +                       delta_cpu = v - statc->state_prev[i];
> > +                       delta += delta_cpu;
> >                         statc->state_prev[i] = v;
> >                 }
> >
> > -               if (!delta)
> > -                       continue;
> > -
> >                 /* Aggregate counts on this level and propagate upwards */
> > -               memcg->vmstats->state[i] += delta;
> > -               if (parent)
> > -                       parent->vmstats->state_pending[i] += delta;
> > +               if (delta_cpu)
> > +                       memcg->vmstats->state_local[i] += delta_cpu;

When delta nulls out, but delta_cpu is non-zero... subtle.

This fixed version looks good, please keep my ack :)