linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.3 026/200] memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.

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Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:20:33 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.3 026/200] memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.

4.3-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>

commit c12176d3368b9b36ae484d323d41e94be26f9b65 upstream.

Commit 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes") has fixed a
regression introduced by 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page
counters") where thresholds were silently converted to use page units
rather than bytes when interpreting the user input.

The fix is not complete, though, as properly pointed out by Ben Hutchings
during stable backport review.  The page count is converted to bytes but
unsigned long is used to hold the value which would be obviously not
sufficient for 32b systems with more than 4G thresholds.  The same applies
to usage as taken from mem_cgroup_usage which might overflow.

Let's remove this bytes vs.  pages internal tracking differences and
handle thresholds in page units internally.  Chage mem_cgroup_usage() to
return the value in page units and revert 424cdc141380 because this should
be sufficient for the consistent handling.  mem_cgroup_read_u64 as the
only users of mem_cgroup_usage outside of the threshold handling code is
converted to give the proper in bytes result.  It is doing that already
for page_counter output so this is more consistent as well.

The value presented to the userspace is still in bytes units.

Fixes: 424cdc141380 ("memcg: convert threshold to bytes")
Fixes: 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.3 026/200] memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.3 026/200] memcg: fix thresholds for 32b architectures.

don't attempt to inline mem_cgroup_usage()

The compiler ignores the inline anwyay.  And __always_inlining it adds 600
bytes of goop to the .o file.

Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2836,9 +2836,9 @@ static unsigned long tree_stat(struct me
 	return val;
 }

-static inline u64 mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool swap)
+static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool swap)
 {
-	u64 val;
+	unsigned long val;

 	if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) {
 		val = tree_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE);
@@ -2851,7 +2851,7 @@ static inline u64 mem_cgroup_usage(struc
 		else
 			val = page_counter_read(&memcg->memsw);
 	}
-	return val << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	return val;
 }

 enum {
@@ -2885,9 +2885,9 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cg
 	switch (MEMFILE_ATTR(cft->private)) {
 	case RES_USAGE:
 		if (counter == &memcg->memory)
-			return mem_cgroup_usage(memcg, false);
+			return (u64)mem_cgroup_usage(memcg, false) * PAGE_SIZE;
 		if (counter == &memcg->memsw)
-			return mem_cgroup_usage(memcg, true);
+			return (u64)mem_cgroup_usage(memcg, true) * PAGE_SIZE;
 		return (u64)page_counter_read(counter) * PAGE_SIZE;
 	case RES_LIMIT:
 		return (u64)counter->limit * PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -3387,7 +3387,6 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_usage_register_e
 	ret = page_counter_memparse(args, "-1", &threshold);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-	threshold <<= PAGE_SHIFT;

 	mutex_lock(&memcg->thresholds_lock);