This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mm/memcg: set memcg when splitting page to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mm-memcg-set-memcg-when-splitting-page.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e1baddf8475b06cc56f4bafecf9a32a124343d9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhou Guanghui <zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:08:33 -0800 Subject: mm/memcg: set memcg when splitting page From: Zhou Guanghui <zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e1baddf8475b06cc56f4bafecf9a32a124343d9f upstream. As described in the split_page() comment, for the non-compound high order page, the sub-pages must be freed individually. If the memcg of the first page is valid, the tail pages cannot be uncharged when be freed. For example, when alloc_pages_exact is used to allocate 1MB continuous physical memory, 2MB is charged(kmemcg is enabled and __GFP_ACCOUNT is set). When make_alloc_exact free the unused 1MB and free_pages_exact free the applied 1MB, actually, only 4KB(one page) is uncharged. Therefore, the memcg of the tail page needs to be set when splitting a page. Michel: There are at least two explicit users of __GFP_ACCOUNT with alloc_exact_pages added recently. See 7efe8ef274024 ("KVM: arm64: Allocate stage-2 pgd pages with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT") and c419621873713 ("KVM: s390: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations"), so this is not just a theoretical issue. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304074053.65527-3-zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Zhou Guanghui <zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -3313,6 +3313,7 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsig for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++) set_page_refcounted(page + i); split_page_owner(page, 1 << order); + split_page_memcg(page, 1 << order); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(split_page); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/mm-memcg-rename-mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup-to-split_page_memcg-and-add-nr_pages-argument.patch queue-5.11/mm-memcg-set-memcg-when-splitting-page.patch