From fcff7d7eebe6d31e2ce20d994555c86a90197034 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:17:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: do not bypass slab charge if memcg is offline Slab pages are charged in two steps. First, an appropriate per memcg cache is selected (see memcg_kmem_get_cache) basing on the current context, then the new slab page is charged to the memory cgroup which the selected cache was created for (see memcg_charge_slab -> __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg). It is OK to bypass kmemcg charge at step 1, but if step 1 succeeded and we successfully allocated a new slab page, step 2 must be performed, otherwise we would get a per memcg kmem cache which contains a slab that does not hold a reference to the memory cgroup owning the cache. Since per memcg kmem caches are destroyed on memcg css free, this could result in freeing a cache while there are still active objects in it. However, currently we will bypass slab page charge if the memory cgroup owning the cache is offline (see __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg). This is very unlikely to occur in practice, because for this to happen a process must be migrated to a different cgroup and the old cgroup must be removed while the process is in kmalloc somewhere between steps 1 and 2 (e.g. trying to allocate a new page). Nevertheless, it's still better to eliminate such a possibility. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 42882c1e7fce..5c9d45e4c739 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2325,9 +2325,6 @@ int __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp, int order, struct page_counter *counter; int ret; - if (!memcg_kmem_online(memcg)) - return 0; - ret = try_charge(memcg, gfp, nr_pages); if (ret) return ret; @@ -2346,10 +2343,11 @@ int __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp, int order, int __memcg_kmem_charge(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp, int order) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg; - int ret; + int ret = 0; memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm); - ret = __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg(page, gfp, order, memcg); + if (memcg_kmem_online(memcg)) + ret = __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg(page, gfp, order, memcg); css_put(&memcg->css); return ret; } -- 2.20.1