The patch titled Subject: memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_stat() unsigned has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was memcg-make-mem_cgroup_read_stat-unsigned.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: make mem_cgroup_read_stat() unsigned mem_cgroup_read_stat() returns a page count by summing per cpu page counters. The summing is racy wrt. updates, so a transient negative sum is possible. Callers don't want negative values: - mem_cgroup_wb_stats() doesn't want negative nr_dirty or nr_writeback. This could confuse dirty throttling. - oom reports and memory.stat shouldn't show confusing negative usage. - tree_usage() already avoids negatives. Avoid returning negative page counts from mem_cgroup_read_stat() and convert it to unsigned. [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: fix old typo while we're in there] Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-make-mem_cgroup_read_stat-unsigned mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-make-mem_cgroup_read_stat-unsigned +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -644,12 +644,14 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struc } /* + * Return page count for single (non recursive) @memcg. + * * Implementation Note: reading percpu statistics for memcg. * * Both of vmstat[] and percpu_counter has threshold and do periodic * synchronization to implement "quick" read. There are trade-off between * reading cost and precision of value. Then, we may have a chance to implement - * a periodic synchronizion of counter in memcg's counter. + * a periodic synchronization of counter in memcg's counter. * * But this _read() function is used for user interface now. The user accounts * memory usage by memory cgroup and he _always_ requires exact value because @@ -659,17 +661,24 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struc * * If there are kernel internal actions which can make use of some not-exact * value, and reading all cpu value can be performance bottleneck in some - * common workload, threashold and synchonization as vmstat[] should be + * common workload, threshold and synchronization as vmstat[] should be * implemented. */ -static long mem_cgroup_read_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx) +static unsigned long +mem_cgroup_read_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx) { long val = 0; int cpu; + /* Per-cpu values can be negative, use a signed accumulator */ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) val += per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[idx], cpu); + /* + * Summing races with updates, so val may be negative. Avoid exposing + * transient negative values. + */ + if (val < 0) + val = 0; return val; } @@ -1254,7 +1263,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct me for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) { if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account) continue; - pr_cont(" %s:%ldKB", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], + pr_cont(" %s:%luKB", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], K(mem_cgroup_read_stat(iter, i))); } @@ -2819,14 +2828,11 @@ static unsigned long tree_stat(struct me enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx) { struct mem_cgroup *iter; - long val = 0; + unsigned long val = 0; - /* Per-cpu values can be negative, use a signed accumulator */ for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, memcg) val += mem_cgroup_read_stat(iter, idx); - if (val < 0) /* race ? */ - val = 0; return val; } @@ -3169,7 +3175,7 @@ static int memcg_stat_show(struct seq_fi for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) { if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account) continue; - seq_printf(m, "%s %ld\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], + seq_printf(m, "%s %lu\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], mem_cgroup_read_stat(memcg, i) * PAGE_SIZE); } @@ -3194,13 +3200,13 @@ static int memcg_stat_show(struct seq_fi (u64)memsw * PAGE_SIZE); for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS; i++) { - long long val = 0; + unsigned long long val = 0; if (i == MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAP && !do_swap_account) continue; for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(mi, memcg) val += mem_cgroup_read_stat(mi, i) * PAGE_SIZE; - seq_printf(m, "total_%s %lld\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], val); + seq_printf(m, "total_%s %llu\n", mem_cgroup_stat_names[i], val); } for (i = 0; i < MEM_CGROUP_EVENTS_NSTATS; i++) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx are fs-seqfile-always-allow-oom-killer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html