linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix slub memory accounting

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Date:   Tue, 23 Feb 2021 07:37:54 -0800
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
CC:     <hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        <shakeelb@...gle.com>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix slub memory accounting

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 05:24:23PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> SLUB currently account kmalloc() and kmalloc_node() allocations larger
> than order-1 page per-node. But it forget to update the per-memcg
> vmstats. So it can lead to inaccurate statistics of "slab_unreclaimable"
> which is from memory.stat. Fix it by using mod_lruvec_page_state instead
> of mod_node_page_state.
> 
> Fixes: 6a486c0ad4dc ("mm, sl[ou]b: improve memory accounting")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Thanks!