Re: [PATCH RFC] mm/hugetlb_cgroup: Add huge_page_order check toavoid incorrectly uncharge

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Tue Jul 10 2012 - 09:40:00 EST


On Tue 10-07-12 18:05:12, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> From: Wanpeng Li <liwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Against linux-next:
>
> Function alloc_huge_page will call hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup
> to charge pages, the compound page have less than 3 pages will not
> charge to hugetlb cgroup. When alloc_huge_page fails it will call
> hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup to uncharge pages, however,
> hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup doesn't have huge_page_order check.
> That means it will uncharge pages even if the compound page have less
> than 3 pages. Add huge_page_order check to avoid this incorrectly
> uncharge.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp.linux@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

> ---
> mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
> index b834e8d..2b9e214 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
> @@ -252,6 +252,9 @@ void hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_cgroup(int idx, unsigned long nr_pages,
>
> if (hugetlb_cgroup_disabled() || !h_cg)
> return;
> +
> + if (huge_page_order(&hstates[idx]) < HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER)
> + return;
>
> res_counter_uncharge(&h_cg->hugepage[idx], csize);
> return;
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
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