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memcg: close race between charge and putback
authorJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:51 +0000 (11:43 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Oct 2011 07:56:08 +0000 (18:56 +1100)
commitd585559d2cd96d7f35efc362c98c01436593ddef
treea803280a5483500f57a7b233b55e24679f290248
parentf645f361db496aa9fe27866fb142bc0fee2ad021
memcg: close race between charge and putback

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

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@redhat.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c