Re: [PATCH] [23/31] HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filter

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Wed Dec 09 2009 - 00:33:51 EST


* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2009-12-09 14:06:20]:

> On Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:04:06 +0800
> Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
> > > +u64 hwpoison_filter_memcg;
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwpoison_filter_memcg);
> > > +static int hwpoison_filter_task(struct page *p)
> > > +{
> > > + struct mem_cgroup *mem;
> > > + struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> > > + unsigned long ino;
> > > +
> > > + if (!hwpoison_filter_memcg)
> > > + return 0;
> > > +
> > > + mem = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page(p);
> > > + if (!mem)
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> > > + css = mem_cgroup_css(mem);
> > > + ino = css->cgroup->dentry->d_inode->i_ino;
> >
> > I have a question, can try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page() return
> > root_mem_cgroup?
> >
> yes.
>
> > if it can, then css->cgroup->dentry is NULL, if memcg is
> > not mounted and there is no subdir in memcg. Because the root
> > cgroup of an inactive subsystem has no dentry.
> >
>
> Nice catch. It sounds possible. That should be handled.
>
>

Yes, agreed, good catch!

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Balbir
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