Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] memcg rcu lock fix v3

[Balbir Singh]

* KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-04-23 13:03:49]:

> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:58:14 +0900
> KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:55:16 +0800
> > Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Li Zefan wrote:
> > > > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > > >> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:00:41 +0800
> > > >> Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, I saw this warning, it's because
> > > >>> css_id() is not under rcu_read_lock().
> > > >>>
> > > >> Ok. Thank you for reporting.
> > > >> This is ok ? 
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, and I did some more simple tests on memcg, no more warning
> > > > showed up.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > oops, after trigging oom, I saw 2 more warnings:
> > > 
> > 
> > Thank you for good testing.
> v3 here...sorry too rapid posting...
> 

Looking at the patch we seem to be protecting the use of only css_*().
I wonder if we should push down the rcu_read_*lock() semnatics to the
css routines or is it just too instrusive to do it that way?

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	Three Cheers,
	Balbir
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