During soft limit memory reclaim, we will temporarily remove the target mem cgroup from the cgroup soft limit tree. We then perform memory reclaim, update the memory usage excess count and re-insert the mem cgroup back into the mem cgroup soft limit tree according to the new memory usage excess count. However, when memory reclaim failed for a maximum number of attempts and we bail out of the reclaim loop, we forgot to put the target mem cgroup chosen for next reclaim back to the soft limit tree. This prevented pages in the mem cgroup from being reclaimed in the future even though the mem cgroup exceeded its soft limit. Fix the logic and put the mem cgroup back on the tree when page reclaim failed for the mem cgroup. Reviewed-by: Ying Huang <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index ed5cc78a8dbf..a51bf90732cb 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3505,8 +3505,12 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, loop > MEM_CGROUP_MAX_SOFT_LIMIT_RECLAIM_LOOPS)) break; } while (!nr_reclaimed); - if (next_mz) + if (next_mz) { + spin_lock_irq(&mctz->lock); + __mem_cgroup_insert_exceeded(next_mz, mctz, excess); + spin_unlock_irq(&mctz->lock); css_put(&next_mz->memcg->css); + } return nr_reclaimed; } -- 2.20.1