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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2020-06-26 06:29:49 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-26 10:27:37 +0300
commitd7670879c5c4aa443d518fb234a9e5f30931efa3 (patch)
tree402b23162e19e1527b133cb20c392e9519b8c0c4 /mm
parent786ae133e07f2a6b352a0efad16b555ee45a2898 (diff)
downloadlinux-d7670879c5c4aa443d518fb234a9e5f30931efa3.tar.xz
mm, slab: fix sign conversion problem in memcg_uncharge_slab()
It was found that running the LTP test on a PowerPC system could produce erroneous values in /proc/meminfo, like: MemTotal: 531915072 kB MemFree: 507962176 kB MemAvailable: 1100020596352 kB Using bisection, the problem is tracked down to commit 9c315e4d7d8c ("mm: memcg/slab: cache page number in memcg_(un)charge_slab()"). In memcg_uncharge_slab() with a "int order" argument: unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order; : mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, cache_vmstat_idx(s), -nr_pages); The mod_lruvec_state() function will eventually call the __mod_zone_page_state() which accepts a long argument. Depending on the compiler and how inlining is done, "-nr_pages" may be treated as a negative number or a very large positive number. Apparently, it was treated as a large positive number in that PowerPC system leading to incorrect stat counts. This problem hasn't been seen in x86-64 yet, perhaps the gcc compiler there has some slight difference in behavior. It is fixed by making nr_pages a signed value. For consistency, a similar change is applied to memcg_charge_slab() as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200620184719.10994-1-longman@redhat.com Fixes: 9c315e4d7d8c ("mm: memcg/slab: cache page number in memcg_(un)charge_slab()"). Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/slab.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 207c83ef6e06..74f7e09a7cfd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static __always_inline int memcg_charge_slab(struct page *page,
gfp_t gfp, int order,
struct kmem_cache *s)
{
- unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+ int nr_pages = 1 << order;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct lruvec *lruvec;
int ret;
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ out:
static __always_inline void memcg_uncharge_slab(struct page *page, int order,
struct kmem_cache *s)
{
- unsigned int nr_pages = 1 << order;
+ int nr_pages = 1 << order;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct lruvec *lruvec;