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memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation

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This patch clarifies two aspects of cache attribute propagation.

First, the expected context for the for_each_memcg_cache macro in
memcontrol.h.  The usages already in the codebase are safe.  In mm/slub.c,
it is trivially safe because the lock is acquired right before the loop.
In mm/slab.c, it is less so: the lock is acquired by an outer function a
few steps back in the stack, so a VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure it is
indeed safe.

A comment is also added to detail why we are returning the value of the
parent cache and ignoring the children's when we propagate the attributes.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Glauber Costa 2012-12-18 14:23:10 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 92e7934955
commit ebe945c276
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include/linux/memcontrol.h
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@ -422,6 +422,12 @@ static inline void sock_release_memcg(struct sock *sk)
extern struct static_key memcg_kmem_enabled_key;
extern int memcg_limited_groups_array_size;
/*
* Helper macro to loop through all memcg-specific caches. Callers must still
* check if the cache is valid (it is either valid or NULL).
* the slab_mutex must be held when looping through those caches
*/
#define for_each_memcg_cache_index(_idx) \
for ((_idx) = 0; i < memcg_limited_groups_array_size; (_idx)++)