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authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>2012-01-20 04:57:16 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2012-01-22 15:08:46 -0500
commit0e90b31f4ba77027a7c21cbfc66404df0851ca21 (patch)
tree10dc6c443e2f058869d3953a90e6d48fb53f83ae /include/linux/res_counter.h
parent8cfd14ad1eb52e44cb1fe7b47a68126e45e04026 (diff)
net: introduce res_counter_charge_nofail() for socket allocations
There is a case in __sk_mem_schedule(), where an allocation is beyond the maximum, but yet we are allowed to proceed. It happens under the following condition: sk->sk_wmem_queued + size >= sk->sk_sndbuf The network code won't revert the allocation in this case, meaning that at some point later it'll try to do it. Since this is never communicated to the underlying res_counter code, there is an inbalance in res_counter uncharge operation. I see two ways of fixing this: 1) storing the information about those allocations somewhere in memcg, and then deducting from that first, before we start draining the res_counter, 2) providing a slightly different allocation function for the res_counter, that matches the original behavior of the network code more closely. I decided to go for #2 here, believing it to be more elegant, since #1 would require us to do basically that, but in a more obscure way. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> CC: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> CC: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/res_counter.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/res_counter.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
index d06d014afda..da81af086ea 100644
--- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
@@ -109,12 +109,18 @@ void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *parent);
*
* returns 0 on success and <0 if the counter->usage will exceed the
* counter->limit _locked call expects the counter->lock to be taken
+ *
+ * charge_nofail works the same, except that it charges the resource
+ * counter unconditionally, and returns < 0 if the after the current
+ * charge we are over limit.
*/
int __must_check res_counter_charge_locked(struct res_counter *counter,
unsigned long val);
int __must_check res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *counter,
unsigned long val, struct res_counter **limit_fail_at);
+int __must_check res_counter_charge_nofail(struct res_counter *counter,
+ unsigned long val, struct res_counter **limit_fail_at);
/*
* uncharge - tell that some portion of the resource is released