linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: update lruvec counters in mem_cgroup_move

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Date:   Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:44:22 +0300
From:   Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: update lruvec counters in
 mem_cgroup_move_account

On 15/10/2019 11.20, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 15-10-19 11:09:59, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>> Mapped, dirty and writeback pages are also counted in per-lruvec stats.
>> These counters needs update when page is moved between cgroups.
> 
> Please describe the user visible effect.

Surprisingly I don't see any users at this moment.
So, there is no effect in mainline kernel.

>> Fixes: 00f3ca2c2d66 ("mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure")
>> Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
> 
> We want Cc: stable I suspect because broken stats might be really
> misleading.
> 
> The patch looks ok to me otherwise
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> 
>> ---
>>   mm/memcontrol.c |   18 ++++++++++++------
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> index bdac56009a38..363106578876 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -5420,6 +5420,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page,
>>   				   struct mem_cgroup *from,
>>   				   struct mem_cgroup *to)
>>   {
>> +	struct lruvec *from_vec, *to_vec;
>> +	struct pglist_data *pgdat;
>>   	unsigned long flags;
>>   	unsigned int nr_pages = compound ? hpage_nr_pages(page) : 1;
>>   	int ret;
>> @@ -5443,11 +5445,15 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page,
>>   
>>   	anon = PageAnon(page);
>>   
>> +	pgdat = page_pgdat(page);
>> +	from_vec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, from);
>> +	to_vec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(pgdat, to);
>> +
>>   	spin_lock_irqsave(&from->move_lock, flags);
>>   
>>   	if (!anon && page_mapped(page)) {
>> -		__mod_memcg_state(from, NR_FILE_MAPPED, -nr_pages);
>> -		__mod_memcg_state(to, NR_FILE_MAPPED, nr_pages);
>> +		__mod_lruvec_state(from_vec, NR_FILE_MAPPED, -nr_pages);
>> +		__mod_lruvec_state(to_vec, NR_FILE_MAPPED, nr_pages);
>>   	}
>>   
>>   	/*
>> @@ -5459,14 +5465,14 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page,
>>   		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
>>   
>>   		if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
>> -			__mod_memcg_state(from, NR_FILE_DIRTY, -nr_pages);
>> -			__mod_memcg_state(to, NR_FILE_DIRTY, nr_pages);
>> +			__mod_lruvec_state(from_vec, NR_FILE_DIRTY, -nr_pages);
>> +			__mod_lruvec_state(to_vec, NR_FILE_DIRTY, nr_pages);
>>   		}
>>   	}
>>   
>>   	if (PageWriteback(page)) {
>> -		__mod_memcg_state(from, NR_WRITEBACK, -nr_pages);
>> -		__mod_memcg_state(to, NR_WRITEBACK, nr_pages);
>> +		__mod_lruvec_state(from_vec, NR_WRITEBACK, -nr_pages);
>> +		__mod_lruvec_state(to_vec, NR_WRITEBACK, nr_pages);
>>   	}
>>   
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>