The patch titled Subject: mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat-fix-2.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat-fix-2.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat-fix-2.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat fix Fix a sleep in atomic section problem: wb_writeback() takes a spinlock and calls wb_over_bg_thresh() -> mem_cgroup_wb_stats, but the regular rstat flushing function called from in there does lockbreaking and may sleep. Switch to the atomic variant, cgroup_rstat_irqsafe(). To be consistent with other memcg flush calls, but without adding another memcg wrapper, inline and drop memcg_flush_vmstats() instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210315234100.64307-1-hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat-fix-2 +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -757,11 +757,6 @@ mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struc return mz; } -static void memcg_flush_vmstats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) -{ - cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); -} - /** * __mod_memcg_state - update cgroup memory statistics * @memcg: the memory cgroup @@ -1572,7 +1567,7 @@ static char *memory_stat_format(struct m * * Current memory state: */ - memcg_flush_vmstats(memcg); + cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(memory_stats); i++) { u64 size; @@ -3523,7 +3518,7 @@ static unsigned long mem_cgroup_usage(st unsigned long val; if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) { - memcg_flush_vmstats(memcg); + cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); val = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_PAGES) + memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_ANON_MAPPED); if (swap) @@ -3925,7 +3920,7 @@ static int memcg_numa_stat_show(struct s int nid; struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_seq(m); - memcg_flush_vmstats(memcg); + cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); for (stat = stats; stat < stats + ARRAY_SIZE(stats); stat++) { seq_printf(m, "%s=%lu", stat->name, @@ -3997,7 +3992,7 @@ static int memcg_stat_show(struct seq_fi BUILD_BUG_ON(ARRAY_SIZE(memcg1_stat_names) != ARRAY_SIZE(memcg1_stats)); - memcg_flush_vmstats(memcg); + cgroup_rstat_flush(memcg->css.cgroup); for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(memcg1_stats); i++) { unsigned long nr; @@ -4500,7 +4495,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_wb_stats(struct bdi_writ struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(wb->memcg_css); struct mem_cgroup *parent; - memcg_flush_vmstats(memcg); + cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe(memcg->css.cgroup); *pdirty = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_FILE_DIRTY); *pwriteback = memcg_page_state(memcg, NR_WRITEBACK); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-page-writeback-simplify-memcg-handling-in-test_clear_page_writeback.patch mm-memcontrol-fix-cpuhotplug-statistics-flushing.patch mm-memcontrol-kill-mem_cgroup_nodeinfo.patch mm-memcontrol-privatize-memcg_page_state-query-functions.patch cgroup-rstat-support-cgroup1.patch cgroup-rstat-punt-root-level-optimization-to-individual-controllers.patch mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat.patch mm-memcontrol-switch-to-rstat-fix-2.patch mm-memcontrol-consolidate-lruvec-stat-flushing.patch kselftests-cgroup-update-kmem-test-for-new-vmstat-implementation.patch