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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2014-01-24 03:52:59 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-24 04:36:51 +0400
commit959c8963fc6c8c9b97e80c55ce77105247040e7d (patch)
tree4f2bcf3e4a69f4a655fabf0fc178498f3d0c367f /mm/slab.h
parent1aa13254259bdef0bca723849ab3bab308d2f0c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-959c8963fc6c8c9b97e80c55ce77105247040e7d.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/slab.h')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.h12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 0859c4241ba1..72d1f9df71bd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -163,9 +163,19 @@ static inline const char *cache_name(struct kmem_cache *s)
static inline struct kmem_cache *
cache_from_memcg_idx(struct kmem_cache *s, int idx)
{
+ struct kmem_cache *cachep;
+
if (!s->memcg_params)
return NULL;
- return s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[idx];
+ cachep = s->memcg_params->memcg_caches[idx];
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure we will access the up-to-date value. The code updating
+ * memcg_caches issues a write barrier to match this (see
+ * memcg_register_cache()).
+ */
+ smp_read_barrier_depends();
+ return cachep;
}
static inline struct kmem_cache *memcg_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)