Re: [patch for-3.12] mm, memcg: protect mem_cgroup_read_events forcpu hotplug

[Johannes Weiner]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 04:31:23PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> for_each_online_cpu() needs the protection of {get,put}_online_cpus() so
> cpu_online_mask doesn't change during the iteration.

There is no problem report here.

Is there a crash?

If it's just accuracy of the read, why would we care about some
inaccuracies in counters that can change before you even get the
results to userspace?  And care to the point where we hold up CPU
hotplugging for this?

Also, the fact that you directly sent this to Linus suggests there is
some urgency for this fix.  What's going on?

Thanks,
Johannes
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