When the memory.high threshold is exceeded, try_charge() schedules a
task_work to reclaim the excess. The reclaim target is set to the number
of pages requested by try_charge(). This is wrong, because try_charge()
usually charges more pages than requested (batch > nr_pages) in order to
refill per cpu stocks. As a result, a process in a cgroup can easily
exceed memory.high significantly when doing a lot of charges w/o
returning to userspace (e.g. reading a file in big chunks).
Fix this issue by assuring that when exceeding memory.high a process
reclaims as many pages as were actually charged (i.e. batch).
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 648cc9f02437..06c476ab0f2c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2133,7 +2133,7 @@ done_restock:
*/
do {
if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->high) {
- current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += nr_pages;
+ current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch;
set_notify_resume(current);
break;
}
--
2.1.4
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