On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:49 AM Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 05:07:30PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Sat 02-07-22 08:39:14, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 10:50:40PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 8:35 PM Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Yafang Shao reported an issue related to the accounting of bpf > > > > > memory: if a bpf map is charged indirectly for memory consumed > > > > > from an interrupt context and allocations are enforced, MEMCG_MAX > > > > > events are not raised. > > > > > > > > > > It's not/less of an issue in a generic case because consequent > > > > > allocations from a process context will trigger the reclaim and > > > > > MEMCG_MAX events. However a bpf map can belong to a dying/abandoned > > > > > memory cgroup, so it might never happen. > > > > > > > > The patch looks good but the above sentence is confusing. What might > > > > never happen? Reclaim or MAX event on dying memcg? > > > > > > Direct reclaim and MAX events. I agree it might be not clear without > > > looking into the code. How about something like this? > > > > > > "It's not/less of an issue in a generic case because consequent > > > allocations from a process context will trigger the direct reclaim > > > and MEMCG_MAX events will be raised. However a bpf map can belong > > > to a dying/abandoned memory cgroup, so there will be no allocations > > > from a process context and no MEMCG_MAX events will be triggered." > > > > Could you expand little bit more on the situation? Can those charges to > > offline memcg happen indefinetely? > > Yes. > > > How can it ever go away then? > > Bpf map should be deleted by a user first. > It can't apply to pinned bpf maps, because the user expects the bpf maps to continue working after the user agent exits. > > Also is this something that we actually want to encourage? > > Not really. We can implement reparenting (probably objcg-based), I think it's > a good idea in general. I can take a look, but can't promise it will be fast. > > In thory we can't forbid deleting cgroups with associated bpf maps, but I don't > thinks it's a good idea. > Agreed. It is not a good idea. > > In other words shouldn't those remote charges be redirected when the > > target memcg is offline? > > Reparenting is the best answer I have. > At the cost of increasing the complexity of deployment, that may not be a good idea neither. -- Regards Yafang
