From ebe945c27628fca03723582eba138acc2e2f3d15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:23:10 -0800 Subject: memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation 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 Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/slab.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'mm/slab.c') diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c index 4dcbf96a77b..e7667a3584b 100644 --- a/mm/slab.c +++ b/mm/slab.c @@ -4099,6 +4099,7 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int limit, if ((ret < 0) || !is_root_cache(cachep)) return ret; + VM_BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&slab_mutex)); for_each_memcg_cache_index(i) { c = cache_from_memcg(cachep, i); if (c) -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258