projects/linux·commit 62ade86a

memcg,thp: fix res_counter:96 regression

62ade86a · Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> · 2012-05-18 11:28:34 -07:00

Occasionally, testing memcg's move_charge_at_immigrate on rc7 shows
a flurry of hundreds of warnings at kernel/res_counter.c:96, where
res_counter_uncharge_locked() does WARN_ON(counter->usage < val).

The first trace of each flurry implicates __mem_cgroup_cancel_charge()
of mc.precharge, and an audit of mc.precharge handling points to
mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range()'s THP handling in commit 12724850e806
("memcg: avoid THP split in task migration").

Checking !mc.precharge is good everywhere else, when a single page is to
be charged; but here the "mc.precharge -= HPAGE_PMD_NR" likely to
follow, is liable to result in underflow (a lot can change since the
precharge was estimated).

Simply check against HPAGE_PMD_NR: there's probably a better
alternative, trying precharge for more, splitting if unsuccessful; but
this one-liner is safer for now - no kernel/res_counter.c:96 warnings
seen in 26 hours.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Commit
62ade86ab6c7e26409229ca45503cae97bf698cf
Parents
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Changes

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diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b659260..7685d4a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5481,7 +5481,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
* part of thp split is not executed yet.
*/
if (pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma) == 1) {
- if (!mc.precharge) {
+ if (mc.precharge < HPAGE_PMD_NR) {
spin_unlock(&vma->vm_mm->page_table_lock);
return 0;
}