[Devel] [PATCH] memcg: fix kmem_account_flags check in memcg_can_account_kmem()

Vladimir Davydov vdavydov at parallels.com
Wed Nov 27 07:46:01 PST 2013


We should start kmem accounting for a memory cgroup only after both its
kmem limit is set (KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE) and related call sites are
patched (KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVATED). Currently memcg_can_account_kmem()
allows kmem accounting even if only one of the conditions is true.
Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f1a0ae6..40efb9d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2956,7 +2956,8 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_limit_mutex);
 static inline bool memcg_can_account_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 	return !mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) &&
-		(memcg->kmem_account_flags & KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK);
+		(memcg->kmem_account_flags & KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK) ==
+							KMEM_ACCOUNTED_MASK;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
1.7.10.4




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