15.12.2020, 15:40, "Johannes Weiner" <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 02:37:16PM -0800, Yang Shi wrote: >> The shrink_slab_memcg() races with mem_cgroup_css_online(). A visibility of >> CSS_ONLINE flag >> in shrink_slab_memcg()->mem_cgroup_online() does not guarantee that we will >> see >> memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_maps != NULL. This may occur because of >> processor reordering >> on !x86. >> >> This seems like the below case: >> >> CPU A CPU B >> store shrinker_map load CSS_ONLINE >> store CSS_ONLINE load shrinker_map >> >> So the memory ordering could be guaranteed by smp_wmb()/smp_rmb() pair. >> >> The memory barriers pair will guarantee the ordering between >> shrinker_deferred and CSS_ONLINE >> for the following patches as well. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]> > > As per previous feedback, please move the misplaced shrinker > allocation callback from .css_online to .css_alloc. This will get you > the necessary ordering guarantees from the cgroup core code.
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