Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] mm/lru: replace pgdat lru_lock with lruvec lock

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>]

在 2019/11/19 上午12:11, Johannes Weiner 写道:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:15:02AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> index 62470325f9bc..cf274739e619 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -1246,6 +1246,42 @@ struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *page, struct pglist_data *pgd
>>  	return lruvec;
>>  }
>>  
>> +struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page,
>> +					struct pglist_data *pgdat)
>> +{
>> +	struct lruvec *lruvec;
>> +
>> +again:
>> +	lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
>> +	spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
> 
> This isn't safe. Nothing prevents the page from being moved to a
> different memcg in between these two operations, and the lruvec having
> been freed by the time you try to acquire the spinlock.
> 
> You need to use the rcu lock to dereference page->mem_cgroup and its
> lruvec when coming from the page like this.

Hi Johannes,

Yes, you are right. Thank a lot to point out this!
Could we use rcu lock to guard the lruvec till lruvec->lru_lock getten?

+struct lruvec *lock_page_lruvec_irq(struct page *page,
+                                       struct pglist_data *pgdat)
+{
+       struct lruvec *lruvec;
+
+again:
+       rcu_read_lock();
+       lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat);
+       spin_lock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
+       rcu_read_unlock();
+
+       /* lruvec may changed in commit_charge() */
+       if (lruvec != mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, pgdat)) {
+               spin_unlock_irq(&lruvec->lru_lock);
+               goto again;
+       }
+
+       return lruvec;
+}
> 
> You also need to use page_memcg_rcu() to insert the appropriate
> lockless access barriers, which mem_cgroup_page_lruvec() does not do
> since it's designed for use with pgdat->lru_lock.
> 

Since the page_memcg_rcu can not know it under a spin_lock, guess the following enhance is fine:
@@ -1225,7 +1224,7 @@ struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *page, struct pglist_data *pgd
                goto out;
        }

-       memcg = page->mem_cgroup;
+       memcg = READ_ONCE(page->mem_cgroup);
        /*


Millions thanks!
Alex