[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a3b2e05fa1836fe8cd144169711390735b3a5415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Thelen <gthelen at google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:23:08 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications

commit 2bff24a3707093c435ab3241c47dcdb5f16e432b upstream.

A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at least
one threshold >=2G was not reliable.  Specifically the notifications would
either not fire or would not fire in the proper order.

The __mem_cgroup_threshold() signaling logic depends on keeping 64 bit
thresholds in sorted order.  mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() sorts them
with compare_thresholds(), which returns the difference of two 64 bit
thresholds as an int.  If the difference is positive but has bit[31] set,
then sort() treats the difference as negative and breaks sort order.

This fix compares the two arbitrary 64 bit thresholds returning the
classic -1, 0, 1 result.

The test below sets two notifications (at 0x1000 and 0x81001000):
  cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
  mkdir x
  for x in 4096 2164264960; do
    cgroup_event_listener x/memory.usage_in_bytes $x | sed "s/^/$x listener:/" &
  done
  echo $$ > x/cgroup.procs
  anon_leaker 500M

v3.11-rc7 fails to signal the 4096 event listener:
  Leaking...
  Done leaking pages.

Patched v3.11-rc7 properly notifies:
  Leaking...
  4096 listener:2013:8:31:14:13:36
  Done leaking pages.

The fixed bug is old.  It appears to date back to the introduction of
memcg threshold notifications in v2.6.34-rc1-116-g2e72b6347c94 "memcg:
implement memory thresholds"

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen at google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 08bcbd8..226b63e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4298,7 +4298,13 @@ static int compare_thresholds(const void *a, const void *b)
 	const struct mem_cgroup_threshold *_a = a;
 	const struct mem_cgroup_threshold *_b = b;

-	return _a->threshold - _b->threshold;
+	if (_a->threshold > _b->threshold)
+		return 1;
+
+	if (_a->threshold < _b->threshold)
+		return -1;
+
+	return 0;
 }

 static int mem_cgroup_oom_notify_cb(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
--
1.8.3.2