4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> commit 5f33a0803bbd781de916f5c7448cbbbbc763d911 upstream. Our system uses significantly more slab memory with memcg enabled with the latest kernel. With 3.10 kernel, slab uses 2G memory, while with 4.6 kernel, 6G memory is used. The shrinker has problem. Let's see we have two memcg for one shrinker. In do_shrink_slab: 1. Check cg1. nr_deferred = 0, assume total_scan = 700. batch size is 1024, then no memory is freed. nr_deferred = 700 2. Check cg2. nr_deferred = 700. Assume freeable = 20, then total_scan = 10 or 40. Let's assume it's 10. No memory is freed. nr_deferred = 10. The deferred share of cg1 is lost in this case. kswapd will free no memory even run above steps again and again. The fix makes sure one memcg's deferred share isn't lost. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2414be961b5d25892060315fbb56bb19d81d0c07.1476227351.git.shli@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -291,6 +291,7 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru int nid = shrinkctl->nid; long batch_size = shrinker->batch ? shrinker->batch : SHRINK_BATCH; + long scanned = 0, next_deferred; freeable = shrinker->count_objects(shrinker, shrinkctl); if (freeable == 0) @@ -312,7 +313,9 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru pr_err("shrink_slab: %pF negative objects to delete nr=%ld\n", shrinker->scan_objects, total_scan); total_scan = freeable; - } + next_deferred = nr; + } else + next_deferred = total_scan; /* * We need to avoid excessive windup on filesystem shrinkers @@ -369,17 +372,22 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(stru count_vm_events(SLABS_SCANNED, nr_to_scan); total_scan -= nr_to_scan; + scanned += nr_to_scan; cond_resched(); } + if (next_deferred >= scanned) + next_deferred -= scanned; + else + next_deferred = 0; /* * move the unused scan count back into the shrinker in a * manner that handles concurrent updates. If we exhausted the * scan, there is no need to do an update. */ - if (total_scan > 0) - new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(total_scan, + if (next_deferred > 0) + new_nr = atomic_long_add_return(next_deferred, &shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]); else new_nr = atomic_long_read(&shrinker->nr_deferred[nid]); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html