The patch titled Subject: mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmstats before releasing memcg has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmstats-before-releasing-memcg.patch

This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmstats-... and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmstats-...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com Subject: mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmstats before releasing memcg

Percpu caching of local vmstats with the conditional propagation by the cgroup tree leads to an accumulation of errors on non-leaf levels.

Let's imagine two nested memory cgroups A and A/B. Say, a process belonging to A/B allocates 100 pagecache pages on the CPU 0. The percpu cache will spill 3 times, so that 32*3=96 pages will be accounted to A/B and A atomic vmstat counters, 4 pages will remain in the percpu cache.

Imagine A/B is nearby memory.max, so that every following allocation triggers a direct reclaim on the local CPU. Say, each such attempt will free 16 pages on a new cpu. That means every percpu cache will have -16 pages, except the first one, which will have 4 - 16 = -12. A/B and A atomic counters will not be touched at all.

Now a user removes A/B. All percpu caches are freed and corresponding vmstat numbers are forgotten. A has 96 pages more than expected.

As memory cgroups are created and destroyed, errors do accumulate. Even 1-2 pages differences can accumulate into large numbers.

To fix this issue let's accumulate and propagate percpu vmstat values before releasing the memory cgroup. At this point these numbers are stable and cannot be changed.

Since on cpu hotplug we do flush percpu vmstats anyway, we can iterate only over online cpus.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819202338.363363-2-guro@fb.com Fixes: 42a300353577 ("mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com Acked-by: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org Cc: Vladimir Davydov vdavydov.dev@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/memcontrol.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmstats-before-releasing-memcg +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3260,6 +3260,41 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cg } }

+static void memcg_flush_percpu_vmstats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) +{ + unsigned long stat[MEMCG_NR_STAT]; + struct mem_cgroup *mi; + int node, cpu, i; + + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_STAT; i++) + stat[i] = 0; + + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_STAT; i++) + stat[i] += raw_cpu_read(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stat[i]); + + for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi)) + for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_STAT; i++) + atomic_long_add(stat[i], &mi->vmstats[i]); + + for_each_node(node) { + struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn = memcg->nodeinfo[node]; + struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pi; + + for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) + stat[i] = 0; + + for_each_online_cpu(cpu) + for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) + stat[i] += raw_cpu_read( + pn->lruvec_stat_cpu->count[i]); + + for (pi = pn; pi; pi = parent_nodeinfo(pi, node)) + for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS; i++) + atomic_long_add(stat[i], &pi->lruvec_stat[i]); + } +} + #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { @@ -4682,6 +4717,11 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem { int node;

+ /* + * Flush percpu vmstats to guarantee the value correctness + * on parent's and all ancestor levels. + */ + memcg_flush_percpu_vmstats(memcg); for_each_node(node) free_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node); free_percpu(memcg->vmstats_percpu); _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from guro@fb.com are

mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmstats-before-releasing-memcg.patch mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-slab-vmstats-on-kmem-offlining.patch mm-memcontrol-flush-percpu-vmevents-before-releasing-memcg.patch mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rcu-protection-in-drain_all_stock.patch