linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 22/74] hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages

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Date:   Mon, 29 Jan 2018 13:56:27 +0100
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>,
        Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 22/74] hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages

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

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

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

commit 18365225f0440d09708ad9daade2ec11275c3df9 upstream.

Laurent Dufour has noticed that hwpoinsoned pages are kept charged.  In
his particular case he has hit a bad_page("page still charged to
cgroup") when onlining a hwpoison page.  While this looks like something
that shouldn't happen in the first place because onlining hwpages and
returning them to the page allocator makes only little sense it shows a
real problem.

hwpoison pages do not get freed usually so we do not uncharge them (at
least not since commit 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge
API")).  Each charge pins memcg (since e8ea14cc6ead ("mm: memcontrol:
take a css reference for each charged page")) as well and so the
mem_cgroup and the associated state will never go away.  Fix this leak
by forcibly uncharging a LRU hwpoisoned page in delete_from_lru_cache().
We also have to tweak uncharge_list because it cannot rely on zero ref
count for these pages.

[akpm@...ux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 0a31bc97c80c ("mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170502185507.GB19165@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Reported-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c     |    2 +-
 mm/memory-failure.c |    7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5576,7 +5576,7 @@ static void uncharge_list(struct list_he
 		next = page->lru.next;

 		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
-		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
+		VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHWPoison(page) && page_count(page), page);

 		if (!page->mem_cgroup)
 			continue;
--- a/mm/memory-failure.c
+++ b/mm/memory-failure.c
@@ -539,6 +539,13 @@ static int delete_from_lru_cache(struct
 		 */
 		ClearPageActive(p);
 		ClearPageUnevictable(p);
+
+		/*
+		 * Poisoned page might never drop its ref count to 0 so we have
+		 * to uncharge it manually from its memcg.
+		 */
+		mem_cgroup_uncharge(p);
+
 		/*
 		 * drop the page count elevated by isolate_lru_page()
 		 */