On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 03:30:35PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> It was found that a number of offline memcgs were not freed because
> they were pinned by some charged pages that were present. Even "echo 1 >
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" wasn't able to free those pages. These offline
> but not freed memcgs tend to increase in number over time with the side
> effect that percpu memory consumption as shown in /proc/meminfo also
> increases over time.
>
> In order to find out more information about those pages that pin
> offline memcgs, the page_owner feature is extended to print memory
> cgroup information especially whether the cgroup is offline or not.
> RCU read lock is taken when memcg is being accessed to make sure
> that it won't be freed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
And my akcs for the first two patches are missing somehow in v4...
> ---
> mm/page_owner.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_owner.c b/mm/page_owner.c
> index 28dac73e0542..f7820357e4d4 100644
> --- a/mm/page_owner.c
> +++ b/mm/page_owner.c
> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
> #include <linux/migrate.h>
> #include <linux/stackdepot.h>
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> +#include <linux/memcontrol.h>
> #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
>
> #include "internal.h"
> @@ -325,6 +326,45 @@ void pagetypeinfo_showmixedcount_print(struct seq_file *m,
> seq_putc(m, '\n');
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Looking for memcg information and print it out
> + */
> +static inline int print_page_owner_memcg(char *kbuf, size_t count, int ret,
> + struct page *page)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> + unsigned long memcg_data;
> + struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> + bool online;
> + char name[80];
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + memcg_data = READ_ONCE(page->memcg_data);
> + if (!memcg_data)
> + goto out_unlock;
> +
> + if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS)
> + ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
> + "Slab cache page\n");
> +
> + memcg = page_memcg_check(page);
> + if (!memcg)
> + goto out_unlock;
> +
> + online = (memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE);
> + cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup, name, sizeof(name));
> + ret += scnprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret,
> + "Charged %sto %smemcg %s\n",
> + PageMemcgKmem(page) ? "(via objcg) " : "",
> + online ? "" : "offline ",
> + name);
> +out_unlock:
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static ssize_t
> print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> struct page *page, struct page_owner *page_owner,
> @@ -365,6 +405,8 @@ print_page_owner(char __user *buf, size_t count, unsigned long pfn,
> migrate_reason_names[page_owner->last_migrate_reason]);
> }
>
> + ret = print_page_owner_memcg(kbuf, count, ret, page);
> +
> ret += snprintf(kbuf + ret, count - ret, "\n");
> if (ret >= count)
> goto err;
> --
> 2.27.0
>
>
--
Sincerely yours,
Mike.
