The patch titled
Subject: memcg: fix low limit calculation
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation.patch
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Subject: memcg: fix low limit calculation
A memcg is considered low limited even when the current usage is equal to
the low limit. This leads to interesting side effects e.g.
groups/hierarchies with no memory accounted are considered protected and
so the reclaim will emit MEMCG_LOW event when encountering them.
Another and much bigger issue was reported by Joonsoo Kim. He has hit a
NULL ptr dereference with the legacy cgroup API which even doesn't have
low limit exposed. The limit is 0 by default but the initial check fails
for memcg with 0 consumption and parent_mem_cgroup() would return NULL if
use_hierarchy is 0 and so page_counter_read would try to dereference NULL.
I suppose that the current implementation is just an overlook because the
documentation in Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt says:
"The memory.low boundary on the other hand is a top-down allocated
reserve. A cgroup enjoys reclaim protection when it and all its
ancestors are below their low boundaries"
Fix the usage and the low limit comparision in mem_cgroup_low accordingly.
Fixes: 241994ed8649 (mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory)
Reported-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5426,7 +5426,7 @@ bool mem_cgroup_low(struct mem_cgroup *r
if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup)
return false;
- if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->low)
+ if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) >= memcg->low)
return false;
while (memcg != root) {
@@ -5435,7 +5435,7 @@ bool mem_cgroup_low(struct mem_cgroup *r
if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup)
break;
- if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->low)
+ if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) >= memcg->low)
return false;
}
return true;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
memcg-fix-low-limit-calculation.patch
mm-vmscan-fix-the-page-state-calculation-in-too_many_isolated.patch
mm-page_isolation-check-pfn-validity-before-access.patch
mm-support-madvisemadv_free.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called.patch
mm-dont-split-thp-page-when-syscall-is-called-fix-2.patch
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