[PATCH] mm, slab: Fix sign conversion problem in memcg_uncharge_slab()

[Waiman Long]

It was found that running the LTP test on a PowerPC system could produce
erroneous values in /proc/meminfo, like:

  MemTotal:       531915072 kB
  MemFree:        507962176 kB
  MemAvailable:   1100020596352 kB

Using bisection, the problem is tracked down to commit 9c315e4d7d8c
("mm: memcg/slab: cache page number in memcg_(un)charge_slab()").

In memcg_uncharge_slab() with a "int order" argument:

  unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
    :
  mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, cache_vmstat_idx(s), -nr_pages);

The mod_lruvec_state() function will eventually call the
__mod_zone_page_state() which accepts a long argument.  Depending on
the compiler and how inlining is done, "-nr_pages" may be treated as
a negative number or a very large positive number. Apparently, it was
treated as a large positive number in that PowerPC system leading to
incorrect stat counts. This problem hasn't been seen in x86-64 yet,
perhaps the gcc compiler there has some slight difference in behavior.

It is fixed by making nr_pages a signed value. For consistency, a
similar change is applied to memcg_charge_slab() as well.

Fixes: 9c315e4d7d8c ("mm: memcg/slab: cache page number in memcg_(un)charge_slab()").
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/slab.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 207c83ef6e06..74f7e09a7cfd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static __always_inline int memcg_charge_slab(struct page *page,
 					     gfp_t gfp, int order,
 					     struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
-	unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+	int nr_pages = 1 << order;
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 	int ret;
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ static __always_inline int memcg_charge_slab(struct page *page,
 static __always_inline void memcg_uncharge_slab(struct page *page, int order,
 						struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
-	unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+	int nr_pages = 1 << order;
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	struct lruvec *lruvec;
 
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