linux-kernel - [PATCH -rc6][BUGFIX] memcg: check under limit at shrink

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Message-Id: <20080919215900.c28d1aef.nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:59:00 +0900
From:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: [PATCH -rc6][BUGFIX] memcg: check under limit at shrink_usage

Current memory cgroup(both in mainline and -mm) doesn't account swap caches
as memory(swap cache support is dropped temporarily now).

So try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages doesn't reflect the count of pages
that have been moved to swap cache.

But this makes mem_cgroup_shrink_usage fail easily if most of the pages
are anon/shmem, and then shmem_getpage returns -ENOMEM and the process
will be killed.

This patch adds res_counter_check_under_limit to avoid these cases.

BTW, even if swap cache support is enabled again, if a process is
moved to another cgroup, which has been just made, between precharge
and shrink_usage in shmem_getpage, shrink_usage may fail just because
there is no pages to reclaim.

So this change would make sense anyway.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
---
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 0f1f7a7..c0500e4 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -806,6 +806,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask)

        do {
                progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(mem, gfp_mask);
+               progress += res_counter_check_under_limit(&mem->res);
        } while (!progress && --retry);

        css_put(&mem->css);
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