linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/9] mm/workingset: handle the page without memcg

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Message-Id: <1581401993-20041-7-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:19:50 +0900
From:   js1304@...il.com
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>, kernel-team@....com,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/9] mm/workingset: handle the page without memcg

From: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>

When implementing workingset detection for anonymous page, I found
some swapcache pages with NULL memcg. From the code reading, I found
two reasons.

One is the case that swap-in readahead happens. The other is the
corner case related to the shmem cache. These two problems should be
fixed, but, it's not straight-forward to fix. For example, when swap-off,
all swapped-out pages are read into swapcache. In this case, who's the
owner of the swapcache page?

Since this problem doesn't look trivial, I decide to leave the issue and
handles this corner case on the place where the error occurs.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
---
 mm/workingset.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 636aafc..20286d6 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ void *workingset_eviction(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *target_memcg)
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page), page);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page);

+	/* page_memcg() can be NULL if swap-in readahead happens */
+	if (!page_memcg(page))
+		return NULL;
+
 	advance_inactive_age(page_memcg(page), pgdat, is_file);

 	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(target_memcg, pgdat);
-- 
2.7.4