linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix kernel stack account

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Date:   Tue, 2 Mar 2021 09:44:42 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     guro@...com, hannes@...xchg.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix kernel stack account

On Tue 02-03-21 15:37:33, Muchun Song wrote:
> The alloc_thread_stack_node() cannot guarantee that allocated stack pages
> are in the same node when CONFIG_VMAP_STACK. Because we do not specify
> __GFP_THISNODE to __vmalloc_node_range(). Fix it by caling
> mod_lruvec_page_state() for each page one by one.

What is the actual problem you are trying to address by this patch?
991e7673859e has deliberately dropped the per page accounting. Can you
explain why that was incorrect? There surely is some imprecision
involved but does it matter and is it even observable?

> Fixes: 991e7673859e ("mm: memcontrol: account kernel stack per node")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
> ---
>  kernel/fork.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index d66cd1014211..6e2201feb524 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -379,14 +379,19 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
>  	void *stack = task_stack_page(tsk);
>  	struct vm_struct *vm = task_stack_vm_area(tsk);
>  
> +	if (vm) {
> +		int i;
>  
> -	/* All stack pages are in the same node. */
> -	if (vm)
> -		mod_lruvec_page_state(vm->pages[0], NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB,
> -				      account * (THREAD_SIZE / 1024));
> -	else
> +		BUG_ON(vm->nr_pages != THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
> +
> +		for (i = 0; i < THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE; i++)
> +			mod_lruvec_page_state(vm->pages[i], NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB,
> +					      account * (PAGE_SIZE / 1024));
> +	} else {
> +		/* All stack pages are in the same node. */
>  		mod_lruvec_kmem_state(stack, NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB,
>  				      account * (THREAD_SIZE / 1024));
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  static int memcg_charge_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk)
> -- 
> 2.11.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs