Re: [PATCH] mm: slab: make page_cgroup_ino() to recognize non-compound slab pages properly

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Wed Oct 30 2019 - 15:44:00 EST


On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 04:27:10PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> page_cgroup_ino() doesn't return a valid memcg pointer for non-compund
> slab pages, because it depends on PgHead AND PgSlab flags to be set
> to determine the memory cgroup from the kmem_cache.
> It's correct for compound pages, but not for generic small pages. Those
> don't have PgHead set, so it ends up returning zero.
>
> Fix this by replacing the condition to PageSlab() && !PageTail().
>
> Before this patch:
> [root@localhost ~]# ./page-types -c /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-0.slice/user@xxxxxxxxx/ | grep slab
> 0x0000000000000080 38 0 _______S___________________________________ slab
>
> After this patch:
> [root@localhost ~]# ./page-types -c /sys/fs/cgroup/user.slice/user-0.slice/user@xxxxxxxxx/ | grep slab
> 0x0000000000000080 147 0 _______S___________________________________ slab
>
> Fixes: 4d96ba353075 ("mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages")
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ping?

> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index ea085877c548..00b4188b1bed 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ ino_t page_cgroup_ino(struct page *page)
> unsigned long ino = 0;
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> - if (PageHead(page) && PageSlab(page))
> + if (PageSlab(page) && !PageTail(page))
> memcg = memcg_from_slab_page(page);
> else
> memcg = READ_ONCE(page->mem_cgroup);
> --
> 2.17.1
>