Re: [PATCH] mm: sync rss-counters at the end of exit_mm()

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

(2012/04/10 7:03), Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
>> <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On task's exit do_exit() calls sync_mm_rss() but this is not enough,
>>> there can be page-faults after this point, for example exit_mm() ->
>>> mm_release() -> put_user() (for processing tsk->clear_child_tid).
>>> Thus there may be some rss-counters delta in current->rss_stat.
>>
>> Seems reasonable.
> 
> Yes, I think Konstantin has probably caught it;
> but I'd like to hear confirmation from Markus.
> 
>> but I have another question. Do we have any reason to
>> keep sync_mm_rss() in do_exit()? I havn't seen any reason that thread exiting
>> makes rss consistency.
> 
> IIRC it's all about the hiwater_rss/maxrss stuff: we want to sync the
> maximum rss into mm->hiwater_rss before it's transferred to signal->maxrss,
> and later made visible to the user though getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN,) -
> does your reading confirm that?
> 


IIRC, sync_mm_rss() in do_exit() is for synchronizing rsscounter for taskacct.
mm->maxrss is sent to listener by xacct_add_tsk(). It's needed to be
synchronized before taskstat_exit()..

Hm, but, exit_mm() is placed after taskstat_exit().

Thanks,
-Kame

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