memcg: fix race in file_mapped accouting flag management
Presently memory cgroup accounts file-mapped by counter and flag. counter is working in the same way with zone_stat but FileMapped flag only exists in memcg (for helping move_account). This flag can be updated wrongly in a case. Assume CPU0 and CPU1 and a thread mapping a page on CPU0, another thread unmapping it on CPU1. CPU0 CPU1 rmv rmap (mapcount 1->0) add rmap (mapcount 0->1) lock_page_cgroup() memcg counter+1 (some delay) set MAPPED FLAG. unlock_page_cgroup() lock_page_cgroup() memcg counter-1 clear MAPPED flag In the above sequence counter is properly updated but FLAG is not. This means that representing a state by a flag which is maintained by counter needs some special care. To handle this, when clearing a flag, this patch check mapcount directly and clear the flag only when mapcount == 0. (if mapcount >0, someone will make it to zero later and flag will be cleared.) Reverse case, dec-after-inc cannot be a problem because page_table_lock() works well for it. (IOW, to make above sequence, 2 processes should touch the same page at once with map/unmap.) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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