linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/5] writeback: memcg dirty_throttle_control should be initialized with wb->memcg

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Date:	Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:47:53 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	tytso@....edu, dedekind1@...il.com, decui@...rosoft.com,
	kernel-team@...com, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4/5] writeback: memcg dirty_throttle_control should be initialized with wb->memcg_completions

MDTC_INIT() is used to initialize dirty_throttle_control for memcg
domains.  It used DTC_INIT_COMMON() to initialized mdtc->wb and
->wb_completions which is incorrect as DTC_INIT_COMMON() sets the
latter to wb->completions instead of wb->memcg_completions.  This can
lead to wildly incorrect results when calculating the proportion of
dirty memory the memcg domain should get.

Remove DTC_INIT_COMMON() and update MDTC_INIT() to initialize
mdtc->wb_completions to wb->memcg_completions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Fixes: c2aa723a6093 ("writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling")
---
 mm/page-writeback.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 0f1a94e..56c0bff 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -145,9 +145,6 @@ struct dirty_throttle_control {
 	unsigned long		pos_ratio;
 };
 
-#define DTC_INIT_COMMON(__wb)	.wb = (__wb),				\
-				.wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions
-
 /*
  * Length of period for aging writeout fractions of bdis. This is an
  * arbitrarily chosen number. The longer the period, the slower fractions will
@@ -157,12 +154,16 @@ struct dirty_throttle_control {
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
 
-#define GDTC_INIT(__wb)		.dom = &global_wb_domain,		\
-				DTC_INIT_COMMON(__wb)
+#define GDTC_INIT(__wb)		.wb = (__wb),				\
+				.dom = &global_wb_domain,		\
+				.wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions
+
 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB		.dom = &global_wb_domain
-#define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc)	.dom = mem_cgroup_wb_domain(__wb),	\
-				.gdtc = __gdtc,				\
-				DTC_INIT_COMMON(__wb)
+
+#define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc)	.wb = (__wb),				\
+				.dom = mem_cgroup_wb_domain(__wb),	\
+				.wb_completions = &(__wb)->memcg_completions, \
+				.gdtc = __gdtc
 
 static bool mdtc_valid(struct dirty_throttle_control *dtc)
 {
@@ -213,7 +214,8 @@ static void wb_min_max_ratio(struct bdi_writeback *wb,
 
 #else	/* CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK */
 
-#define GDTC_INIT(__wb)		DTC_INIT_COMMON(__wb)
+#define GDTC_INIT(__wb)		.wb = (__wb),                           \
+				.wb_completions = &(__wb)->completions
 #define GDTC_INIT_NO_WB
 #define MDTC_INIT(__wb, __gdtc)
 
-- 
2.4.3

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