The patch titled Subject: mm: vmscan: check if mem cgroup is disabled or not before calling memcg slab shrinker has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmscan-check-if-mem-cgroup-is-disabled-or-not-before-calling-memcg-slab-shrinker.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscan-check-if-mem-cgroup-is-disabled-or-not-before-calling-memcg-slab-shrinker.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscan-check-if-mem-cgroup-is-disabled-or-not-before-calling-memcg-slab-shrinker.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: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: vmscan: check if mem cgroup is disabled or not before calling memcg slab shrinker Shakeel Butt reported premature oom on kernel with "cgroup_disable=memory" since mem_cgroup_is_root() returns false even though memcg is actually NULL. The drop_caches is also broken. It is because aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()") removed the !memcg check before !mem_cgroup_is_root(). And, surprisingly root memcg is allocated even though memory cgroup is disabled by kernel boot parameter. Add mem_cgroup_disabled() check to make reclaimer work as expected. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1563385526-20805-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: aeed1d325d42 ("mm/vmscan.c: generalize shrink_slab() calls in shrink_node()") Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxx> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [4.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscan-check-if-mem-cgroup-is-disabled-or-not-before-calling-memcg-slab-shrinker +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -699,7 +699,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t g unsigned long ret, freed = 0; struct shrinker *shrinker; - if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) + /* + * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled + * via "cgroup_disable=memory" boot parameter. This could make + * mem_cgroup_is_root() return false, then just run memcg slab + * shrink, but skip global shrink. This may result in premature + * oom. + */ + if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority); if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are revert-kmemleak-allow-to-coexist-with-fault-injection.patch mm-vmscan-check-if-mem-cgroup-is-disabled-or-not-before-calling-memcg-slab-shrinker.patch mm-mempolicy-make-the-behavior-consistent-when-mpol_mf_move-and-mpol_mf_strict-were-specified.patch mm-mempolicy-handle-vma-with-unmovable-pages-mapped-correctly-in-mbind.patch mm-thp-make-transhuge_vma_suitable-available-for-anonymous-thp.patch mm-thp-make-transhuge_vma_suitable-available-for-anonymous-thp-v4.patch mm-thp-fix-false-negative-of-shmem-vmas-thp-eligibility.patch