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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-01-15 13:51:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 16:39:41 -0800
commit068b38c1fa7a9210608f27ac521897ccc5f9b726 (patch)
tree6ae0ca440bab074c03a4cd4528e8c1467458753f /mm
parent0eb253e223c88b982461e59154fcad1b82597592 (diff)
memcg: fix a race when setting memory.swappiness
(suppose: memcg->use_hierarchy == 0 and memcg->swappiness == 60) echo 10 > /memcg/0/swappiness | mem_cgroup_swappiness_write() | ... | echo 1 > /memcg/0/use_hierarchy | mkdir /mnt/0/1 | sub_memcg->swappiness = 60; memcg->swappiness = 10; | In the above scenario, we end up having 2 different swappiness values in a single hierarchy. We should hold cgroup_lock() when cheking cgrp->children list. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f0dc076adf0..4d0ea3ceba6 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1992,6 +1992,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
struct mem_cgroup *parent;
+
if (val > 100)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -1999,15 +2000,22 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
return -EINVAL;
parent = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp->parent);
+
+ cgroup_lock();
+
/* If under hierarchy, only empty-root can set this value */
if ((parent->use_hierarchy) ||
- (memcg->use_hierarchy && !list_empty(&cgrp->children)))
+ (memcg->use_hierarchy && !list_empty(&cgrp->children))) {
+ cgroup_unlock();
return -EINVAL;
+ }
spin_lock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);
memcg->swappiness = val;
spin_unlock(&memcg->reclaim_param_lock);
+ cgroup_unlock();
+
return 0;
}