The patch titled Subject: mm/page_counter.c: fix protection usage propagation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-protection-usage-propagation.patch
This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-protection-usage-propagation... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-protection-usage-propagation...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Koutný mkoutny@suse.com Subject: mm/page_counter.c: fix protection usage propagation
When workload runs in cgroups that aren't directly below root cgroup and their parent specifies reclaim protection, it may end up ineffective.
The reason is that propagate_protected_usage() is not called in all hierarchy up. All the protected usage is incorrectly accumulated in the workload's parent. This means that siblings_low_usage is overestimated and effective protection underestimated. Even though it is transitional phenomenon (uncharge path does correct propagation and fixes the wrong children_low_usage), it can undermine the indended protection unexpectedly.
We have noticed this problem while seeing a swap out in a descendant of a protected memcg (intermediate node) while the parent was conveniently under its protection limit and the memory pressure was external to that hierarchy. Michal has pinpointed this down to the wrong siblings_low_usage which led to the unwanted reclaim.
The fix is simply updating children_low_usage in respective ancestors also in the charging path.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200803153231.15477-1-mhocko@kernel.org Fixes: 230671533d64 ("mm: memory.low hierarchical behavior") Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný mkoutny@suse.com Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com Cc: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [4.18+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
mm/page_counter.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_counter.c~mm-fix-protection-usage-propagation +++ a/mm/page_counter.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ void page_counter_charge(struct page_cou long new;
new = atomic_long_add_return(nr_pages, &c->usage); - propagate_protected_usage(counter, new); + propagate_protected_usage(c, new); /* * This is indeed racy, but we can live with some * inaccuracy in the watermark. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ bool page_counter_try_charge(struct page new = atomic_long_add_return(nr_pages, &c->usage); if (new > c->max) { atomic_long_sub(nr_pages, &c->usage); - propagate_protected_usage(counter, new); + propagate_protected_usage(c, new); /* * This is racy, but we can live with some * inaccuracy in the failcnt. @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ bool page_counter_try_charge(struct page *fail = c; goto failed; } - propagate_protected_usage(counter, new); + propagate_protected_usage(c, new); /* * Just like with failcnt, we can live with some * inaccuracy in the watermark. _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mkoutny@suse.com are
mm-fix-protection-usage-propagation.patch proc-pid-smaps-consistent-whitespace-output-format.patch