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mm: memcg: update the correct soft limit tree during migration
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end_migration() passes the old page instead of the new page to commit
the charge.  This page descriptor is not used for committing itself,
though, since we also pass the (correct) page_cgroup descriptor.  But
it's used to find the soft limit tree through the page's zone, so the
soft limit tree of the old page's zone is updated instead of that of the
new page's, which might get slightly out of date until the next charge
reaches the ratelimit point.

This glitch has been present since 5564e88 ("memcg: condense
page_cgroup-to-page lookup points").

This fixes a bug that I introduced in 2.6.38.  It's benign enough (to my
knowledge) that we probably don't want this for stable.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 23, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -3247,7 +3247,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page,
ctype = MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_CACHE;
else
ctype = MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_SHMEM;
__mem_cgroup_commit_charge(memcg, page, 1, pc, ctype);
__mem_cgroup_commit_charge(memcg, newpage, 1, pc, ctype);
return ret;
}

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