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memcg: allow a memcg with kmem charges to be destructed
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Because the ultimate goal of the kmem tracking in memcg is to track slab
pages as well, we can't guarantee that we'll always be able to point a
page to a particular process, and migrate the charges along with it -
since in the common case, a page will contain data belonging to multiple
processes.

Because of that, when we destroy a memcg, we only make sure the
destruction will succeed by discounting the kmem charges from the user
charges when we try to empty the cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Glauber Costa authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 18, 2012
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15 changes: 14 additions & 1 deletion mm/memcontrol.c
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Expand Up @@ -547,6 +547,11 @@ static void disarm_kmem_keys(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
if (memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg))
static_key_slow_dec(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
/*
* This check can't live in kmem destruction function,
* since the charges will outlive the cgroup
*/
WARN_ON(res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->kmem, RES_USAGE) != 0);
}
#else
static void disarm_kmem_keys(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -4025,6 +4030,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_force_empty_list(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
static void mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
int node, zid;
u64 usage;

do {
/* This is for making all *used* pages to be on LRU. */
Expand All @@ -4045,13 +4051,20 @@ static void mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
cond_resched();

/*
* Kernel memory may not necessarily be trackable to a specific
* process. So they are not migrated, and therefore we can't
* expect their value to drop to 0 here.
* Having res filled up with kmem only is enough.
*
* This is a safety check because mem_cgroup_force_empty_list
* could have raced with mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache callers
* so the lru seemed empty but the page could have been added
* right after the check. RES_USAGE should be safe as we always
* charge before adding to the LRU.
*/
} while (res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_USAGE) > 0);
usage = res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_USAGE) -
res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->kmem, RES_USAGE);
} while (usage > 0);
}

/*
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