memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:23:10 +0000 (14:23 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:02:15 +0000 (15:02 -0800)
commitebe945c27628fca03723582eba138acc2e2f3d15
tree5998e8dd874aedf3b8873d0ffeaf658d10505655
parent92e793495597af4135d94314113bf13eafb0e663
memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation

This patch clarifies two aspects of cache attribute propagation.

First, the expected context for the for_each_memcg_cache macro in
memcontrol.h.  The usages already in the codebase are safe.  In mm/slub.c,
it is trivially safe because the lock is acquired right before the loop.
In mm/slab.c, it is less so: the lock is acquired by an outer function a
few steps back in the stack, so a VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure it is
indeed safe.

A comment is also added to detail why we are returning the value of the
parent cache and ignoring the children's when we propagate the attributes.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/slab.c
mm/slub.c