[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 173/210] net: tcp_memcontrol: properly detect ancestor socket pressure

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jan 29 01:18:31 UTC 2016


3.19.8-ckt14 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>

commit 8c2c2358b236530bc2c79b4c2a447cbdbc3d96d7 upstream.

When charging socket memory, the code currently checks only the local
page counter for excess to determine whether the memcg is under socket
pressure.  But even if the local counter is fine, one of the ancestors
could have breached its limit, which should also force this child to
enter socket pressure.  This currently doesn't happen.

Fix this by using page_counter_try_charge() first.  If that fails, it
means that either the local counter or one of the ancestors are in
excess of their limit, and the child should enter socket pressure.

Fixes: 3e32cb2e0a12 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/net/sock.h | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
index 7c22c16..a2ee838 100644
--- a/include/net/sock.h
+++ b/include/net/sock.h
@@ -1237,11 +1237,13 @@ static inline void memcg_memory_allocated_add(struct cg_proto *prot,
 					      unsigned long amt,
 					      int *parent_status)
 {
-	page_counter_charge(&prot->memory_allocated, amt);
+	struct page_counter *counter;
+
+	if (page_counter_try_charge(&prot->memory_allocated, amt, &counter))
+		return;
 
-	if (page_counter_read(&prot->memory_allocated) >
-	    prot->memory_allocated.limit)
-		*parent_status = OVER_LIMIT;
+	page_counter_charge(&prot->memory_allocated, amt);
+	*parent_status = OVER_LIMIT;
 }
 
 static inline void memcg_memory_allocated_sub(struct cg_proto *prot,
-- 
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