linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg

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Message-ID: <20190819202338.363363-4-guro@fb.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:23:38 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg

Similar to vmstats, percpu caching of local vmevents leads to an
accumulation of errors on non-leaf levels.  This happens because some
leftovers may remain in percpu caches, so that they are never propagated
up by the cgroup tree and just disappear into nonexistence with on
releasing of the memory cgroup.

To fix this issue let's accumulate and propagate percpu vmevents values
before releasing the memory cgroup similar to what we're doing with
vmstats.

Since on cpu hotplug we do flush percpu vmstats anyway, we can iterate
only over online cpus.

Fixes: 42a300353577 ("mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ebd72b80c90b..3137de6a46f0 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3430,6 +3430,25 @@ static void memcg_flush_percpu_vmstats(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool slab_only)
 	}
 }
 
+static void memcg_flush_percpu_vmevents(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	unsigned long events[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS];
+	struct mem_cgroup *mi;
+	int cpu, i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++)
+		events[i] = 0;
+
+	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+		for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++)
+			events[i] += raw_cpu_read(
+				memcg->vmstats_percpu->events[i]);
+
+	for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi))
+		for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++)
+			atomic_long_add(events[i], &mi->vmevents[i]);
+}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
@@ -4860,10 +4879,11 @@ static void __mem_cgroup_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 	int node;
 
 	/*
-	 * Flush percpu vmstats to guarantee the value correctness
+	 * Flush percpu vmstats and vmevents to guarantee the value correctness
 	 * on parent's and all ancestor levels.
 	 */
 	memcg_flush_percpu_vmstats(memcg, false);
+	memcg_flush_percpu_vmevents(memcg);
 	for_each_node(node)
 		free_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(memcg, node);
 	free_percpu(memcg->vmstats_percpu);
-- 
2.21.0