linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: drain stocks on resize limit

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Date:   Fri,  4 May 2018 13:55:48 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: drain stocks on resize limit

Resizing the memcg limit for cgroup-v2 drains the stocks before
triggering the memcg reclaim. Do the same for cgroup-v1 to make the
behavior consistent.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 25b148c2d222..e2d33a37f971 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2463,6 +2463,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 				 unsigned long max, bool memsw)
 {
 	bool enlarge = false;
+	bool drained = false;
 	int ret;
 	bool limits_invariant;
 	struct page_counter *counter = memsw ? &memcg->memsw : &memcg->memory;
@@ -2493,6 +2494,12 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		if (!ret)
 			break;
 
+		if (!drained) {
+			drain_all_stock(memcg);
+			drained = true;
+			continue;
+		}
+
 		if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1,
 					GFP_KERNEL, !memsw)) {
 			ret = -EBUSY;
-- 
2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d-goog