memcg: Fix race condition in memcg_check_events() with this_cpu usage
Various code in memcontrol.c () calls this_cpu_read() on the calculations to be done from two different percpu variables, or does an open-coded read-modify-write on a single percpu variable. Disable preemption throughout these operations so that the writes go to the correct palces. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: added this_cpu to __this_cpu conversion] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.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>
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