On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 11:36:00AM -0400, Dan Schatzberg wrote:

From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

The memalloc_use_memcg() function to override the default memcg
accounting context currently doesn't nest. But the patches to make the
loop driver cgroup-aware will end up nesting:

[   98.137605]  alloc_page_buffers+0x210/0x288
[   98.141799]  __getblk_gfp+0x1d4/0x400
[   98.145475]  ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x148/0xbc8
[   98.150628]  ext4_mb_init_cache+0x25c/0x9b0
[   98.154821]  ext4_mb_init_group+0x270/0x390
[   98.159014]  ext4_mb_good_group+0x264/0x270
[   98.163208]  ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x480/0x798
[   98.168011]  ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x958/0x10f8
[   98.172294]  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xec8/0x1618
[   98.176660]  ext4_map_blocks+0x1b8/0x8a0
[   98.180592]  ext4_writepages+0x830/0xf10
[   98.184523]  do_writepages+0xb4/0x198
[   98.188195]  __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x170/0x1c8
[   98.193086]  filemap_write_and_wait_range+0x40/0xb0
[   98.197974]  ext4_punch_hole+0x4a4/0x660
[   98.201907]  ext4_fallocate+0x294/0x1190
[   98.205839]  loop_process_work+0x690/0x1100
[   98.210032]  loop_workfn+0x2c/0x110
[   98.213529]  process_one_work+0x3e0/0x648
[   98.217546]  worker_thread+0x70/0x670
[   98.221217]  kthread+0x1b8/0x1c0
[   98.224452]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18

where loop_process_work() sets the memcg override to the memcg that
submitted the IO request, and alloc_page_buffers() sets the override
to the memcg that instantiated the cache page, which may differ.

Make memalloc_use_memcg() return the old memcg and convert existing
users to a stacking model. Delete the unused memalloc_unuse_memcg().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <redacted>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <redacted>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <redacted>

Hi Dan,

JFYI: I need a similar patch for the bpf memory accounting rework,
so I ended up sending it separately (with some modifications including
different naming): https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/1464 .

Can you please, rebase your patchset using this patch?

I hope Andrew can pull this standalone patch into 5.9-rc*,
as Shakeel suggested. It will help us to avoid merge conflicts
during the 5.10 merge window.

Thanks!