mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg
authorRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 00:54:50 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sun, 25 Aug 2019 02:48:42 +0000 (19:48 -0700)
commitbb65f89b7d3d305c14951f49860711fbcae70692
treeef0341e09c5a221fa3a3044f456e2fbd07aa298c
parentc350a99ea2b1b666c28948d74ab46c16913c28a7
mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg

Similar to vmstats, percpu caching of local vmevents leads to an
accumulation of errors on non-leaf levels.  This happens because some
leftovers may remain in percpu caches, so that they are never propagated
up by the cgroup tree and just disappear into nonexistence with on
releasing of the memory cgroup.

To fix this issue let's accumulate and propagate percpu vmevents values
before releasing the memory cgroup similar to what we're doing with
vmstats.

Since on cpu hotplug we do flush percpu vmstats anyway, we can iterate
only over online cpus.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819202338.363363-4-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 42a300353577 ("mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c