memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation

This patch clarifies two aspects of cache attribute propagation.

First, the expected context for the for_each_memcg_cache macro in
memcontrol.h.  The usages already in the codebase are safe.  In mm/slub.c,
it is trivially safe because the lock is acquired right before the loop.
In mm/slab.c, it is less so: the lock is acquired by an outer function a
few steps back in the stack, so a VM_BUG_ON() is added to make sure it is
indeed safe.

A comment is also added to detail why we are returning the value of the
parent cache and ignoring the children's when we propagate the attributes.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/slab.c b/mm/slab.c
index 4dcbf96a77b4..e7667a3584bc 100644
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -4099,6 +4099,7 @@ static int do_tune_cpucache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, int limit,
         if ((ret < 0) || !is_root_cache(cachep))
                 return ret;
 
+        VM_BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&slab_mutex));
         for_each_memcg_cache_index(i) {
                 c = cache_from_memcg(cachep, i);
                 if (c)