[PATCH 1/6] mm, memcg: Prevent memory.high load/store tearing

[Chris Down]

A mem_cgroup's high attribute can be concurrently set at the same time
as we are trying to read it -- for example, if we are in
memory_high_write at the same time as we are trying to do high reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 63bb6a2aab81..d32d3c0a16d4 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2228,7 +2228,7 @@ static void reclaim_high(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 			 gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	do {
-		if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) <= memcg->high)
+		if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) <= READ_ONCE(memcg->high))
 			continue;
 		memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH);
 		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask, true);
@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ static int try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
 	 * reclaim, the cost of mismatch is negligible.
 	 */
 	do {
-		if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->high) {
+		if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > READ_ONCE(memcg->high)) {
 			/* Don't bother a random interrupted task */
 			if (in_interrupt()) {
 				schedule_work(&memcg->high_work);
@@ -4257,7 +4257,8 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writeback *wb, unsigned long *pfilepages,
 	*pheadroom = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 
 	while ((parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg))) {
-		unsigned long ceiling = min(memcg->memory.max, memcg->high);
+		unsigned long ceiling = min(memcg->memory.max,
+					    READ_ONCE(memcg->high));
 		unsigned long used = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
 
 		*pheadroom = min(*pheadroom, ceiling - min(ceiling, used));
@@ -4978,7 +4979,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
 	if (!memcg)
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
 
-	memcg->high = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+	WRITE_ONCE(memcg->high, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
 	memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 	if (parent) {
 		memcg->swappiness = mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent);
@@ -5131,7 +5132,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	page_counter_set_max(&memcg->tcpmem, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
 	page_counter_set_min(&memcg->memory, 0);
 	page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);
-	memcg->high = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+	WRITE_ONCE(memcg->high, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
 	memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 	memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg);
 }
@@ -5947,7 +5948,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	memcg->high = high;
+	WRITE_ONCE(memcg->high, high);
 
 	for (;;) {
 		unsigned long nr_pages = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory);
-- 
2.25.1