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| author | Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> | 2012-08-01 01:43:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-08-01 03:42:43 +0200 |
| commit | 567fb435bb7a37afda35902b884562c40756dc45 (patch) | |
| tree | 71c4cec3ab02bd69eafbfd98d38774466d52843e /mm | |
| parent | mm: remove unused LRU_ALL_EVICTABLE (diff) | |
| download | linux-567fb435bb7a37afda35902b884562c40756dc45.tar.xz linux-567fb435bb7a37afda35902b884562c40756dc45.zip | |
memcg: fix bad behavior in use_hierarchy file
I have an application that does the following:
* copy the state of all controllers attached to a hierarchy
* replicate it as a child of the current level.
I would expect writes to the files to mostly succeed, since they are
inheriting sane values from parents.
But that is not the case for use_hierarchy. If it is set to 0, we succeed
ok. If we're set to 1, the value of the file is automatically set to 1 in
the children, but if userspace tries to write the very same 1, it will
fail. That same situation happens if we set use_hierarchy, create a
child, and then try to write 1 again.
Now, there is no reason whatsoever for failing to write a value that is
already there. It doesn't even match the comments, that states:
/* If parent's use_hierarchy is set, we can't make any modifications
* in the child subtrees...
since we are not changing anything.
So test the new value against the one we're storing, and automatically
return 0 if we're not proposing a change.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
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.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 55a85e1a342f..6d3dd54ec429 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3764,6 +3764,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, parent_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(parent); cgroup_lock(); + + if (memcg->use_hierarchy == val) + goto out; + /* * If parent's use_hierarchy is set, we can't make any modifications * in the child subtrees. If it is unset, then the change can @@ -3780,6 +3784,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, retval = -EBUSY; } else retval = -EINVAL; + +out: cgroup_unlock(); return retval; |