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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2014-08-06 16:05:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:17 -0700
commit692e7c45d95ad1064b6911800e2cfec7fc0236db (patch)
tree2ff6a6787fd84f067c6d7bfb8790d725700eb726 /mm
parent9476db974d9e18885123fcebc09f4596bb922e5f (diff)
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mm: memcontrol: catch root bypass in move precharge
When mem_cgroup_try_charge() returns -EINTR, it bypassed the charge to the root memcg. But move precharging does not catch this and treats this case as if no charge had happened, thus leaking a charge against root. Because of an old optimization, the root memcg's res_counter is not actually charged right now, but it's still an imbalance and subsequent patches will charge the root memcg again. Catch those bypasses to the root memcg and properly cancel them before giving up the move. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 8a4159e..e0ac636 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6401,6 +6401,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_precharge(unsigned long count)
mc.precharge += count;
return ret;
}
+ if (ret == -EINTR) {
+ __mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(root_mem_cgroup, count);
+ return ret;
+ }
/* Try charges one by one with reclaim */
while (count--) {
@@ -6409,8 +6413,11 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_precharge(unsigned long count)
/*
* In case of failure, any residual charges against
* mc.to will be dropped by mem_cgroup_clear_mc()
- * later on.
+ * later on. However, cancel any charges that are
+ * bypassed to root right away or they'll be lost.
*/
+ if (ret == -EINTR)
+ __mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(root_mem_cgroup, 1);
if (ret)
return ret;
mc.precharge++;
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