Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH 2/4] memcg: fix charge path for THP and allow early retirement
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Date: 2011-01-28 07:57:30
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:26:08PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted> When THP is used, Hugepage size charge can happen. It's not handled correctly in mem_cgroup_do_charge(). For example, THP can fallback to small page allocation when HUGEPAGE allocation seems difficult or busy, but memory cgroup doesn't understand it and continue to try HUGEPAGE charging. And the worst thing is memory cgroup believes 'memory reclaim succeeded' if limit - usage > PAGE_SIZE. By this, khugepaged etc...can goes into inifinite reclaim loop if tasks in memcg are busy. After this patch - Hugepage allocation will fail if 1st trial of page reclaim fails. Changelog: - make changes small. removed renaming codes. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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