Re: [External] Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: memcg/slab: Fix root memcg vmstats

[Muchun Song]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:14 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 10:56:20AM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 2:48 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 04:02:55PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > > If we reparent the slab objects to the root memcg, when we free
> > > > the slab object, we need to update the per-memcg vmstats to keep
> > > > it correct for the root memcg. Now this at least affects the vmstat
> > > > of NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB for !CONFIG_VMAP_STACK when the thread stack
> > > > size is smaller than the PAGE_SIZE.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: ec9f02384f60 ("mm: workingset: fix vmstat counters for shadow nodes")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Can you, please, drop this patch for now?
> > >
> > > I'm working on a bigger cleanup related to the handling of the root memory
> > > cgroup (I sent a link earlier in this thread), which already does a similar change.
> > > There are several issues like this one, so it will be nice to fix them all at once.
> >
> > I have read the patch of https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/14/869. You
> > mean this patch
> > fixes this issue? It chooses to uncharge the root memcg. But here we may need to
> > uncharge the root memcg to keep root vmstats correct. If we do not do
> > this, we can
> > see the wrong vmstats via root memory.stat(e.g. NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB).
>
> I pointed at a different patch in the same thread (it looks like you read the first one):
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/10/21/612

Got it. Thanks. That is fine to me.

>
> It contained the following part:
>
> @@ -868,7 +860,7 @@ void __mod_lruvec_slab_state(void *p, enum node_stat_item idx, int val)
>         memcg = mem_cgroup_from_obj(p);
>
>         /* Untracked pages have no memcg, no lruvec. Update only the node */
> -       if (!memcg || memcg == root_mem_cgroup) {
> +       if (!memcg) {
>                 __mod_node_page_state(pgdat, idx, val);
>         } else {
>                 lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
>
> So it's exactly what your patch does.
>
> Thanks!



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Yours,
Muchun