Re: [PATCH] memcg: change oom_info_lock to mutex

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 10-02-14 13:40:55, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Michal Hocko wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 19d5d4274e22..55e6731ebcd5 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
> >  	 * protects memcg_name and makes sure that parallel ooms do not
> >  	 * interleave
> >  	 */
> > -	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(oom_info_lock);
> > +	static DEFINE_MUTEX(oom_info_lock);
> >  	struct cgroup *task_cgrp;
> >  	struct cgroup *mem_cgrp;
> >  	static char memcg_name[PATH_MAX];
> > @@ -1698,7 +1698,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
> >  	if (!p)
> >  		return;
> >  
> > -	spin_lock(&oom_info_lock);
> > +	mutex_lock(&oom_info_lock);
> >  	rcu_read_lock();
> >  
> >  	mem_cgrp = memcg->css.cgroup;
> > @@ -1767,7 +1767,7 @@ done:
> >  
> >  		pr_cont("\n");
> >  	}
> > -	spin_unlock(&oom_info_lock);
> > +	mutex_unlock(&oom_info_lock);
> >  }
> >  
> >  /*
> 
> Can we change oom_info_lock() to only protecting memcg_name and forget 
> about interleaving the hierarchical memcg stats instead?

Why? Is mutex or holding it for the whole mem_cgroup_print_oom_info a
big deal? I think that having clear oom report is really worth it.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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