memcg, slab: fix barrier usage when accessing memcg_caches
Each root kmem_cache has pointers to per-memcg caches stored in its
memcg_params::memcg_caches array. Whenever we want to allocate a slab
for a memcg, we access this array to get per-memcg cache to allocate
from (see memcg_kmem_get_cache()). The access must be lock-free for
performance reasons, so we should use barriers to assert the kmem_cache
is up-to-date.
First, we should place a write barrier immediately before setting the
pointer to it in the memcg_caches array in order to make sure nobody
will see a partially initialized object. Second, we should issue a read
barrier before dereferencing the pointer to conform to the write
barrier.
However, currently the barrier usage looks rather strange. We have a
write barrier *after* setting the pointer and a read barrier *before*
reading the pointer, which is incorrect. This patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 739383c..322d18d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3274,12 +3274,14 @@
list_add(&s->memcg_params->list, &memcg->memcg_slab_caches);
mutex_unlock(&memcg->slab_caches_mutex);
- root->memcg_params->memcg_caches[id] = s;
/*
- * the readers won't lock, make sure everybody sees the updated value,
- * so they won't put stuff in the queue again for no reason
+ * Since readers won't lock (see cache_from_memcg_idx()), we need a
+ * barrier here to ensure nobody will see the kmem_cache partially
+ * initialized.
*/
- wmb();
+ smp_wmb();
+
+ root->memcg_params->memcg_caches[id] = s;
}
void memcg_unregister_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
@@ -3605,7 +3607,7 @@
gfp_t gfp)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
- int idx;
+ struct kmem_cache *memcg_cachep;
VM_BUG_ON(!cachep->memcg_params);
VM_BUG_ON(!cachep->memcg_params->is_root_cache);
@@ -3619,15 +3621,9 @@
if (!memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg))
goto out;
- idx = memcg_cache_id(memcg);
-
- /*
- * barrier to mare sure we're always seeing the up to date value. The
- * code updating memcg_caches will issue a write barrier to match this.
- */
- read_barrier_depends();
- if (likely(cache_from_memcg_idx(cachep, idx))) {
- cachep = cache_from_memcg_idx(cachep, idx);
+ memcg_cachep = cache_from_memcg_idx(cachep, memcg_cache_id(memcg));
+ if (likely(memcg_cachep)) {
+ cachep = memcg_cachep;
goto out;
}