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SubjectRe: memcg uncharge page counter mismatch
On Thu 03-12-15 15:58:50, Michal Hocko wrote:
[....]
> Warning, this looks ugly as hell.

I was thinking about it some more and it seems that we should rather not
bother with partial thp at all and keep it in the original memcg
instead. It is way much less code and I do not think this will be too
disruptive. Somebody should be holding the thp head, right?

Minchan, does this fix the issue you are seeing.
---
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 79a29d564bff..143c933f0b81 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4895,6 +4895,14 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd,
switch (get_mctgt_type(vma, addr, ptent, &target)) {
case MC_TARGET_PAGE:
page = target.page;
+ /*
+ * We can have a part of the split pmd here. Moving it
+ * can be done but it would be too convoluted so simply
+ * ignore such a partial THP and keep it in original
+ * memcg. There should be somebody mapping the head.
+ */
+ if (PageCompound(page))
+ goto put;
if (isolate_lru_page(page))
goto put;
if (!mem_cgroup_move_account(page, false,
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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