On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:30:17 -0800 (PST)
Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Swapping tmpfs loads show absurd wrapped rss and wrong cache in memcg's
> memory.stat statistics: __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common() is failing to
> distinguish the anon and tmpfs cases.
>
I thought I tested this..maybe my test was wrong, sorry.
> Mostly we can decide between them by PageAnon, which is reliable once
> it has been set; but there are several callers who need to uncharge a
> MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED page before it was fully initialized,
> so allow that case to override the PageAnon decision.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It seems I should revisit these and consinder some cleanup...
_OFF TOPIC_
To be honest, I don't like to have anon/rss counter in memory.stat because
we have LRU statistics. It seems enough.. If shmem counter is required,
I think we should have shmem counter rather than anon/rss.
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --- 3.3-rc5-next/mm/memcontrol.c 2012-02-25 10:06:52.496035568 -0800
> +++ linux/mm/memcontrol.c 2012-02-26 10:44:32.146365398 -0800
> @@ -2944,13 +2944,16 @@ __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(struct page
> if (!PageCgroupUsed(pc))
> goto unlock_out;
>
> + anon = PageAnon(page);
> +
> switch (ctype) {
> case MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_MAPPED:
> + anon = true;
> + /* fallthrough */
> case MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_DROP:
> /* See mem_cgroup_prepare_migration() */
> if (page_mapped(page) || PageCgroupMigration(pc))
> goto unlock_out;
> - anon = true;
> break;
> case MEM_CGROUP_CHARGE_TYPE_SWAPOUT:
> if (!PageAnon(page)) { /* Shared memory */
> @@ -2958,10 +2961,8 @@ __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(struct page
> goto unlock_out;
> } else if (page_mapped(page)) /* Anon */
> goto unlock_out;
> - anon = true;
> break;
> default:
> - anon = false;
> break;
> }
>
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