Re: [PATCH] mm/filemap: Adding missing mem_cgroup_uncharge() to __add_to_page_cache_locked()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Jan 25 2021 - 13:32:35 EST


On Mon 25-01-21 13:23:58, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 1/25/21 1:14 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > With the proposed simplification by Willy
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank for the ack. However, I am a bit confused about what you mean by
> simplification. There is another linux-next patch that changes the condition
> for mem_cgroup_charge() to

This is obviously a fix and I believe should go in the next rc while
secretmem is a new feature which should wait at least to the next merge
window.

> -       if (!huge) {
> +       if (!huge && !page_is_secretmem(page)) {
>                 error = mem_cgroup_charge(page, current->mm, gfp);
>
> That is the main reason why I introduced the boolean variable as I don't
> want to call the external page_is_secretmem() function twice.
>
> Cheers,
> Longman
>

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Michal Hocko
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