linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: memcg/slab: Stop reparented obj

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Message-ID: <87v9fasp7a.fsf@suse.de>
Date:   Fri, 16 Oct 2020 06:40:57 +0100
From:   Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@...e.de>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     ltp@...ts.linux.it, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        "Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: memcg/slab: Stop reparented obj_cgroups from
 charging root

Hello Roman,

Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> writes:

> Hi Richard!
>
>> SLAB objects which outlive their memcg are moved to their parent
>> memcg where they may be uncharged. However if they are moved to the
>> root memcg, uncharging will result in negative page counter values as
>> root has no page counters.
>> 
>> To prevent this, we check whether we are about to uncharge the root
>> memcg and skip it if we are. Possibly instead; the obj_cgroups should
>> be removed from their slabs and any per cpu stocks instead of
>> reparenting them to root?
>
> It would be really complex. I think your fix is totally fine.
> We have similar checks in cancel_charge(), uncharge_batch(),
> mem_cgroup_swapout(), mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap() etc.
>
>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
>
> Thanks!

Great I will respin.

-- 
Thank you,
Richard.