aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/tools/perf/scripts/python/net_dropmonitor.py
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJohannes Weiner <[email protected]>2011-11-02 13:38:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2011-11-02 16:07:00 -0700
commita61ed3cec51cfd4877855c24890ab8d3e2b143e3 (patch)
tree3ffb850513b202c8eb0ac09ad6d307719bd39856 /tools/perf/scripts/python/net_dropmonitor.py
parent9b272977e3b99a8699361d214b51f98c8a9e0e7b (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Ying Han <[email protected]> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]> Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/scripts/python/net_dropmonitor.py')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions