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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] mm: memcontrol: update page->mem_cgroup stability rules
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 11:40:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200611094033.GC20450@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200508183105.225460-20-hannes@cmpxchg.org>

On Fri 08-05-20 14:31:06, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> The previous patches have simplified the access rules around
> page->mem_cgroup somewhat:
> 
> 1. We never change page->mem_cgroup while the page is isolated by
>    somebody else. This was by far the biggest exception to our rules
>    and it didn't stop at lock_page() or lock_page_memcg().
> 
> 2. We charge pages before they get put into page tables now, so the
>    somewhat fishy rule about "can be in page table as long as it's
>    still locked" is now gone and boiled down to having an exclusive
>    reference to the page.
> 
> Document the new rules. Any of the following will stabilize the
> page->mem_cgroup association:
> 
> - the page lock
> - LRU isolation
> - lock_page_memcg()
> - exclusive access to the page
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
> Reviewed-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

Thanks a lot this is a big improvement and simplification.

I have gone through the whole series finally. I have followed up where
necessary but overall this is really nice!

Sorry I couldn't jump in to review in time.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-11  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08 18:30 [PATCH 00/19 V2] mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 01/19] mm: fix NUMA node file count error in replace_page_cache() Johannes Weiner
2020-05-18 11:18   ` Balbir Singh
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 02/19] mm: memcontrol: fix stat-corrupting race in charge moving Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 03/19] mm: memcontrol: drop @compound parameter from memcg charging API Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 04/19] mm: memcontrol: move out cgroup swaprate throttling Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 05/19] mm: memcontrol: convert page cache to a new mem_cgroup_charge() API Johannes Weiner
2020-06-10 16:09   ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 06/19] mm: memcontrol: prepare uncharging for removal of private page type counters Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 07/19] mm: memcontrol: prepare move_account " Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 08/19] mm: memcontrol: prepare cgroup vmstat infrastructure for native anon counters Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 09/19] mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM counters Johannes Weiner
2020-06-10 16:42   ` Michal Hocko
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 10/19] mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_ANON_MAPPED counter Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 11/19] mm: memcontrol: switch to native NR_ANON_THPS counter Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:30 ` [PATCH 12/19] mm: memcontrol: convert anon and file-thp to new mem_cgroup_charge() API Johannes Weiner
2020-05-12 14:38   ` Qian Cai
2020-05-12 17:11     ` Qian Cai
2020-05-12 21:58     ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-12 23:58       ` Qian Cai
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 13/19] mm: memcontrol: drop unused try/commit/cancel charge API Johannes Weiner
2020-06-22 17:06   ` Ben Widawsky
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 14/19] mm: memcontrol: prepare swap controller setup for integration Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 15/19] mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part of memory control Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 16/19] mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation Johannes Weiner
2020-06-11  9:35   ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17  8:49     ` [PATCH for 5.8] mm: do_swap_page fix up the error code instantiation Michal Hocko
2020-06-17  9:02       ` Michal Hocko
2020-06-17 13:34         ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 17/19] mm: memcontrol: document the new swap control behavior Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 18/19] mm: memcontrol: delete unused lrucare handling Johannes Weiner
2020-05-08 18:31 ` [PATCH 19/19] mm: memcontrol: update page->mem_cgroup stability rules Johannes Weiner
2020-06-11  9:40   ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-05-13 11:30 ` [PATCH 00/19 V2] mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation Balbir Singh
2020-05-13 12:35   ` Johannes Weiner
2020-05-14 11:04     ` Balbir Singh

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