On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 06:00:48PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> An offline memory cgroup might have anonymous memory or shmem left
> charged to it and no swap. Since only swap entries pin the id of an
> offline cgroup, such a cgroup will have no id and so an attempt to
> swapout its anon/shmem will not store memory cgroup info in the swap
> cgroup map. As a result, memcg->swap or memcg->memsw will never get
> uncharged from it and any of its ascendants.
>
> Fix this by always charging swapout to the first ancestor cgroup that
> hasn't released its id yet.
>
> Fixes: 73f576c04b941 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.19+]
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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