On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 5:01 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'd been worried by high "swapcached" counts in memcg OOM reports,
> thought we had a problem freeing swapcache, but it was just the
> accounting that was wrong.
>
> Two issues:
>
> 1. When __remove_mapping() removes swapcache, __delete_from_swap_cache()
> relies on memcg_data for the right counts to be updated; but that had
> already been reset by mem_cgroup_swapout(). Swap those calls around -
> mem_cgroup_swapout() does not require the swapcached flag to be set.
>
> 6.1 commit ac35a4902374 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: minimal implementation")
> already made a similar swap for workingset_eviction(), but not for this.
>
> 2. memcg's "swapcached" count was added for memcg v2 stats, but displayed
> on OOM even for memcg v1: so mem_cgroup_move_account() ought to move it.
>
> Fixes: b6038942480e ("mm: memcg: add swapcache stat for memcg v2")
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
