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authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>2022-03-25 04:09:08 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-25 05:06:44 +0300
commitfcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 (patch)
tree0a1e4e94bc19410bd80c6ca8df96f10f52e5ad5c /kernel
parent3ebc439761273274ea00258da84d997841f01e72 (diff)
downloadlinux-fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9.tar.xz
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>
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