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mm/page_owner: print memcg information
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:09:08 +0000 (18:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Mar 2022 02:06:44 +0000 (19:06 -0700)
commit0118975d103d75f2af7f984b2b7ff3f2a94f6d5a
tree0a1e4e94bc19410bd80c6ca8df96f10f52e5ad5c
parent58811149001a33b0d195258c46a3f85a24c146e1
mm/page_owner: print memcg information

It was found that a number of offline memcgs were not freed because they
were pinned by some charged pages that were present.  Even "echo 1 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" wasn't able to free those pages.  These
offline but not freed memcgs tend to increase in number over time with
the side effect that percpu memory consumption as shown in /proc/meminfo
also increases over time.

In order to find out more information about those pages that pin offline
memcgs, the page_owner feature is extended to print memory cgroup
information especially whether the cgroup is offline or not.  RCU read
lock is taken when memcg is being accessed to make sure that it won't be
freed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220202203036.744010-4-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/page_owner.c