linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vmpressure: Fix subtree pressure detection

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Message-ID: <20160127184701.GA31360@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:47:01 -0500
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmpressure: Fix subtree pressure detection

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 07:28:57PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> When vmpressure is called for the entire subtree under pressure we
> mistakenly use vmpressure->scanned instead of vmpressure->tree_scanned
> when checking if vmpressure work is to be scheduled. This results in
> suppressing all vmpressure events in the legacy cgroup hierarchy. Fix
> it.
> 
> Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure")
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>