On Tue 14-10-14 12:20:34, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> Charges currently pin the css indirectly by playing tricks during
> css_offline(): user pages stall the offlining process until all of
> them have been reparented, whereas kmemcg acquires a keep-alive
> reference if outstanding kernel pages are detected at that point.
> 
> In preparation for removing all this complexity, make the pinning
> explicit and acquire a css references for every charged page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@parallels.com>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>

> ---
>  include/linux/cgroup.h          | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/percpu-refcount.h | 47 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  mm/memcontrol.c                 | 21 ++++++++++++++----
>  3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 67dabe8b0aa6..a3feead6be15 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2256,6 +2256,7 @@ static void drain_stock(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock)
>               page_counter_uncharge(&old->memory, stock->nr_pages);
>               if (do_swap_account)
>                       page_counter_uncharge(&old->memsw, stock->nr_pages);
> +             css_put_many(&old->css, stock->nr_pages);

I have suggested to add a comment about pairing css_get here because the
corresponding refill_stock doesn't take any reference which might be
little bit confusing. Nothing earth shattering of course...

>               stock->nr_pages = 0;
>       }
>       stock->cached = NULL;
> @@ -2513,6 +2514,7 @@ bypass:
>       return -EINTR;
>  
>  done_restock:
> +     css_get_many(&memcg->css, batch);
>       if (batch > nr_pages)
>               refill_stock(memcg, batch - nr_pages);
>  done:
[...]
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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