Re: [PATCH] vmpressure: Fix subtree pressure detection

[Michal Hocko]

On Wed 27-01-16 19:28:57, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When vmpressure is called for the entire subtree under pressure we
> mistakenly use vmpressure->scanned instead of vmpressure->tree_scanned
> when checking if vmpressure work is to be scheduled. This results in
> suppressing all vmpressure events in the legacy cgroup hierarchy. Fix
> it.
> 
> Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

a = b += c made me scratch my head for a second but this looks correct

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/vmpressure.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/vmpressure.c b/mm/vmpressure.c
> index 9a6c0704211c..149fdf6c5c56 100644
> --- a/mm/vmpressure.c
> +++ b/mm/vmpressure.c
> @@ -248,9 +248,8 @@ void vmpressure(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool tree,
>  
>  	if (tree) {
>  		spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
> -		vmpr->tree_scanned += scanned;
> +		scanned = vmpr->tree_scanned += scanned;
>  		vmpr->tree_reclaimed += reclaimed;
> -		scanned = vmpr->scanned;
>  		spin_unlock(&vmpr->sr_lock);
>  
>  		if (scanned < vmpressure_win)
> -- 
> 2.1.4

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs