When the memory.high threshold is exceeded, try_charge() schedules a task_work to reclaim the excess. The reclaim target is set to the number of pages requested by try_charge(). This is wrong, because try_charge() usually charges more pages than requested (batch > nr_pages) in order to refill per cpu stocks. As a result, a process in a cgroup can easily exceed memory.high significantly when doing a lot of charges w/o returning to userspace (e.g. reading a file in big chunks).
Fix this issue by assuring that when exceeding memory.high a process reclaims as many pages as were actually charged (i.e. batch). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@virtuozzo.com> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 648cc9f02437..06c476ab0f2c 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2133,7 +2133,7 @@ done_restock: */ do { if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->high) { - current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += nr_pages; + current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch; set_notify_resume(current); break; } -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/