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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 7/7][memcg] use spin lock instead of bit_spin_lock in page_cgroup
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 23:39:11 +0530
Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> * Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> [2010-07-27 23:16:54]:
>
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> writes:
> >
> > > From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > >
> > > This patch replaces page_cgroup's bit_spinlock with spinlock. In general,
> > > spinlock has good implementation than bit_spin_lock and we should use
> > > it if we have a room for it. In 64bit arch, we have extra 4bytes.
> > > Let's use it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > > --
> > > Index: mmotm-0719/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- mmotm-0719.orig/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > > +++ mmotm-0719/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
> > > @@ -10,8 +10,14 @@
> > > * All page cgroups are allocated at boot or memory hotplug event,
> > > * then the page cgroup for pfn always exists.
> > > */
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> > > +#define PCG_HAS_SPINLOCK
> > > +#endif
> > > struct page_cgroup {
> > > unsigned long flags;
> > > +#ifdef PCG_HAS_SPINLOCK
> > > + spinlock_t lock;
> > > +#endif
> > > unsigned short mem_cgroup; /* ID of assigned memory cgroup */
> > > unsigned short blk_cgroup; /* Not Used..but will be. */
> > > struct page *page;
> > > @@ -90,6 +96,16 @@ static inline enum zone_type page_cgroup
> > > return page_zonenum(pc->page);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +#ifdef PCG_HAS_SPINLOCK
> > > +static inline void lock_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc)
> > > +{
> > > + spin_lock(&pc->lock);
> > > +}
> >
> > This is minor issue, but this patch breaks usage of PageCgroupLocked().
> > Example from __mem_cgroup_move_account() cases panic:
> > VM_BUG_ON(!PageCgroupLocked(pc));
> >
> > I assume that this patch should also delete the following:
> > - PCG_LOCK definition from page_cgroup.h
> > - TESTPCGFLAG(Locked, LOCK) from page_cgroup.h
> > - PCGF_LOCK from memcontrol.c
> >
>
>
> Good catch! But from my understanding of the code we use spinlock_t
> only for 64 bit systems, so we still need the PCG* and TESTPGFLAGS.
>
The latest sets have proper calls.

-Kame



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