From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579B46B0254 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:51:35 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id l68so3574259wml.0 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:51:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from gum.cmpxchg.org (gum.cmpxchg.org. [85.214.110.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i6si405706wmf.31.2016.03.10.12.51.34 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:51:34 -0800 (PST) From: Johannes Weiner Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: reclaim when shrinking memory.high below usage Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:50:13 -0500 Message-Id: <1457643015-8828-1-git-send-email-hannes@cmpxchg.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Michal Hocko , Vladimir Davydov , linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com When setting memory.high below usage, nothing happens until the next charge comes along, and then it will only reclaim its own charge and not the now potentially huge excess of the new memory.high. This can cause groups to stay in excess of their memory.high indefinitely. To fix that, when shrinking memory.high, kick off a reclaim cycle that goes after the delta. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner --- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 8615b066b642..f7c9b4cbdf01 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -4992,6 +4992,7 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of)); + unsigned long nr_pages; unsigned long high; int err; @@ -5002,6 +5003,11 @@ static ssize_t memory_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, memcg->high = high; + nr_pages = page_counter_read(&memcg->memory); + if (nr_pages > high) + try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages - high, + GFP_KERNEL, true); + memcg_wb_domain_size_changed(memcg); return nbytes; } -- 2.7.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org