From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrea Righi Subject: Re: [PATCH -mmotm 1/5] memcg: disable irq at page cgroup lock Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:00:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20100315100024.GA1653__49710.6287083172$1268647363$gmane$org@linux.develer.com> References: <1268609202-15581-1-git-send-email-arighi@develer.com> <1268609202-15581-2-git-send-email-arighi@develer.com> <20100315090638.ee416d93.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100315090638.ee416d93.kamezawa.hiroyu-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Daisuke Nishimura , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Trond Myklebust , linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, Suleiman Souhlal , Andrew Morton , containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org, Vivek Goyal , Balbir Singh List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 09:06:38AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:26:38 +0100 > Andrea Righi wrote: > > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > > > Now, file-mapped is maintaiend. But more generic update function > > will be needed for dirty page accounting. > > > > For accountig page status, we have to guarantee lock_page_cgroup() > > will be never called under tree_lock held. > > To guarantee that, we use trylock at updating status. > > By this, we do fuzzy accounting, but in almost all case, it's correct. > > > > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki > > Bad patch title...."use trylock for safe accounting in some contexts" ? OK, sounds better. I just copy & paste the email subject, but the title was probably related to the old lock_page_cgroup()+irq_disable patch. Thanks, -Andrea