Re: [PATCH -mm] vmscan: fix sane_reclaim helper for legacy memcg

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Sep 18 2015 - 10:09:05 EST


On Fri 18-09-15 15:48:00, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> The sane_reclaim() helper is supposed to return false for memcg reclaim
> if the legacy hierarchy is used, because the latter lacks dirty
> throttling mechanism, and so it did before it was accidentally broken by
> commit 33398cf2f360c ("memcg: export struct mem_cgroup"). Fix it.
>
> Fixes: 33398cf2f360c ("memcg: export struct mem_cgroup")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks for catching this up!

> ---
> mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
> index db5339dd4a32..dbc3b3ae48de 100644
> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
> @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ static bool sane_reclaim(struct scan_control *sc)
> if (!memcg)
> return true;
> #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
> - if (memcg->css.cgroup)
> + if (cgroup_on_dfl(memcg->css.cgroup))
> return true;
> #endif
> return false;
> --
> 2.1.4

--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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