From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memcontrol.c: keep local VM counters in sync with the hierarchical ones After 815744d75152 ("mm: memcontrol: don't batch updates of local VM stats and events"), the local VM counter are not in sync with the hierarchical ones. Below is one example in a leaf memcg on my server (with 8 CPUs): inactive_file 3567570944 total_inactive_file 3568029696 We find that the deviation is very great because the 'val' in __mod_memcg_state() is in pages while the effective value in memcg_stat_show() is in bytes. So the maximum of this deviation between local VM stats and total VM stats can be (32 * number_of_cpu * PAGE_SIZE), that may be an unacceptably great value. We should keep the local VM stats in sync with the total stats. In order to keep this behavior the same across counters, this patch updates __mod_lruvec_state() and __count_memcg_events() as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1562851979-10610-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yafang Shao <shaoyafang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-keep-local-vm-counters-in-sync-with-the-hierarchical-ones +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -695,12 +695,15 @@ void __mod_memcg_state(struct mem_cgroup if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return; - __this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_local->stat[idx], val); - x = val + __this_cpu_read(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stat[idx]); if (unlikely(abs(x) > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) { struct mem_cgroup *mi; + /* + * Batch local counters to keep them in sync with + * the hierarchical ones. + */ + __this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_local->stat[idx], x); for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi)) atomic_long_add(x, &mi->vmstats[idx]); x = 0; @@ -749,13 +752,15 @@ void __mod_lruvec_state(struct lruvec *l /* Update memcg */ __mod_memcg_state(memcg, idx, val); - /* Update lruvec */ - __this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stat_local->count[idx], val); - x = val + __this_cpu_read(pn->lruvec_stat_cpu->count[idx]); if (unlikely(abs(x) > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) { struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pi; + /* + * Batch local counters to keep them in sync with + * the hierarchical ones. + */ + __this_cpu_add(pn->lruvec_stat_local->count[idx], x); for (pi = pn; pi; pi = parent_nodeinfo(pi, pgdat->node_id)) atomic_long_add(x, &pi->lruvec_stat[idx]); x = 0; @@ -777,12 +782,15 @@ void __count_memcg_events(struct mem_cgr if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return; - __this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_local->events[idx], count); - x = count + __this_cpu_read(memcg->vmstats_percpu->events[idx]); if (unlikely(x > MEMCG_CHARGE_BATCH)) { struct mem_cgroup *mi; + /* + * Batch local counters to keep them in sync with + * the hierarchical ones. + */ + __this_cpu_add(memcg->vmstats_local->events[idx], x); for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi)) atomic_long_add(x, &mi->vmevents[idx]); x = 0; _