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    memcg: close race between charge and putback · a61ed3ce
    Johannes Weiner 提交于
    There is a potential race between a thread charging a page and another
    thread putting it back to the LRU list:
    
      charge:                         putback:
      SetPageCgroupUsed               SetPageLRU
      PageLRU && add to memcg LRU     PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU
    
    The order of setting one flag and checking the other is crucial, otherwise
    the charge may observe !PageLRU while the putback observes !PageCgroupUsed
    and the page is not linked to the memcg LRU at all.
    
    Global memory pressure may fix this by trying to isolate and putback the
    page for reclaim, where that putback would link it to the memcg LRU again.
     Without that, the memory cgroup is undeletable due to a charge whose
    physical page can not be found and moved out.
    Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
    Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
    Acked-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
    Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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