This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg
to the 4.0-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:
kernfs-do-not-account-ino_ida-allocations-to-memcg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 499611ed451508a42d1d7d1faff10177827755d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 15:16:58 -0700
Subject: kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg
From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 499611ed451508a42d1d7d1faff10177827755d5 upstream.
root->ino_ida is used for kernfs inode number allocations. Since IDA has
a layered structure, different IDs can reside on the same layer, which
is currently accounted to some memory cgroup. The problem is that each
kmem cache of a memory cgroup has its own directory on sysfs (under
/sys/fs/kernel/<cache-name>/cgroup). If the inode number of such a
directory or any file in it gets allocated from a layer accounted to the
cgroup which the cache is created for, the cgroup will get pinned for
good, because one has to free all kmem allocations accounted to a cgroup
in order to release it and destroy all its kmem caches. That said we
must not account layers of ino_ida to any memory cgroup.
Since per net init operations may create new sysfs entries directly
(e.g. lo device) or indirectly (nf_conntrack creates a new kmem cache
per each namespace, which, in turn, creates new sysfs entries), an easy
way to reproduce this issue is by creating network namespace(s) from
inside a kmem-active memory cgroup.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c
@@ -518,7 +518,14 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_
if (!kn)
goto err_out1;
- ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
+ /*
+ * If the ino of the sysfs entry created for a kmem cache gets
+ * allocated from an ida layer, which is accounted to the memcg that
+ * owns the cache, the memcg will get pinned forever. So do not account
+ * ino ida allocations.
+ */
+ ret = ida_simple_get(&root->ino_ida, 1, 0,
+ GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOACCOUNT);
if (ret < 0)
goto err_out2;
kn->ino = ret;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.0/gfp-add-__gfp_noaccount.patch
queue-4.0/kernfs-do-not-account-ino_ida-allocations-to-memcg.patch
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