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    mm: migrate: do not touch page->mem_cgroup of live pages · 6a93ca8f
    Johannes Weiner authored
    
    
    Changing a page's memcg association complicates dealing with the page,
    so we want to limit this as much as possible.  Page migration e.g.  does
    not have to do that.  Just like page cache replacement, it can forcibly
    charge a replacement page, and then uncharge the old page when it gets
    freed.  Temporarily overcharging the cgroup by a single page is not an
    issue in practice, and charging is so cheap nowadays that this is much
    preferrable to the headache of messing with live pages.
    
    The only place that still changes the page->mem_cgroup binding of live
    pages is when pages move along with a task to another cgroup.  But that
    path isolates the page from the LRU, takes the page lock, and the move
    lock (lock_page_memcg()).  That means page->mem_cgroup is always stable
    in callers that have the page isolated from the LRU or locked.  Lighter
    unlocked paths, like writeback accounting, can use lock_page_memcg().
    
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
    [vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: fix lockdep splat]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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