Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] memcg: trylock stock for objcg

[Shakeel Butt]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 12:47:00PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2025-03-13 23:15:10 [-0700], Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > To make objcg stock functions work without disabling irq, we need to
> > convert those function to use localtry_trylock_irqsave() instead of
> > localtry_lock_irqsave(). This patch for now just does the conversion and
> > later patch will eliminate the irq disabling code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  mm/memcontrol.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index c803d2f5e322..ba5d004049d3 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -2764,7 +2764,11 @@ static void mod_objcg_state(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, struct pglist_data *pgdat,
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> >  	int *bytes;
> >  
> > -	localtry_lock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags);
> > +	if (!localtry_trylock_irqsave(&memcg_stock.stock_lock, flags)) {
> 
> Don't you need to change the of memcg_stock.stock_lock? Didn't we
> introduce an explicit different type for this trylock feature?
> 

Yes, Alexei has already changed the type of this exact lock at [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250222024427.30294-5-alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx