linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: only mark charged pages with PageKmemcg

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Date:	Tue, 09 Aug 2016 18:58:05 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: only mark charged pages with PageKmemcg

On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 14:20 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> > To distinguish non-slab pages charged to kmemcg we mark them PageKmemcg [..]
> 
> Eric, can you confirm that this fixes your issue?
> 

It is fixing the issue for me, thanks a lot Vladimir and Linus.

(I also checked that commit 4949148ad433 was indeed the bug origin)

Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>