An offline memory cgroup might have anonymous memory or shmem left
charged to it and no swap. Since only swap entries pin the id of an
offline cgroup, such a cgroup will have no id and so an attempt to
swapout its anon/shmem will not store memory cgroup info in the swap
cgroup map. As a result, memcg->swap or memcg->memsw will never get
uncharged from it and any of its ascendants.

Fix this by always charging swapout to the first ancestor cgroup that
hasn't released its id yet.

Fixes: 73f576c04b941 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many 
small jobs")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavy...@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>    [3.19+]
---
Changes in v2:
 - handle !use_hierarchy case properly (Michal)

 mm/memcontrol.c | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3be791afd372..4ae12effe347 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4036,6 +4036,24 @@ static void mem_cgroup_id_get(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
        atomic_inc(&memcg->id.ref);
 }
 
+static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_id_get_active(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+       while (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&memcg->id.ref)) {
+               /*
+                * The root cgroup cannot be destroyed, so it's refcount must
+                * always be >= 1.
+                */
+               if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup) {
+                       VM_BUG_ON(1);
+                       break;
+               }
+               memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
+               if (!memcg)
+                       memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
+       }
+       return memcg;
+}
+
 static void mem_cgroup_id_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&memcg->id.ref)) {
@@ -5752,7 +5770,7 @@ subsys_initcall(mem_cgroup_init);
  */
 void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *page, swp_entry_t entry)
 {
-       struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+       struct mem_cgroup *memcg, *swap_memcg;
        unsigned short oldid;
 
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
@@ -5767,15 +5785,20 @@ void mem_cgroup_swapout(struct page *page, swp_entry_t 
entry)
        if (!memcg)
                return;
 
-       mem_cgroup_id_get(memcg);
-       oldid = swap_cgroup_record(entry, mem_cgroup_id(memcg));
+       swap_memcg = mem_cgroup_id_get_active(memcg);
+       oldid = swap_cgroup_record(entry, mem_cgroup_id(swap_memcg));
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(oldid, page);
-       mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(memcg, true);
+       mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(swap_memcg, true);
 
        page->mem_cgroup = NULL;
 
        if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
                page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memory, 1);
+       if (memcg != swap_memcg) {
+               if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(swap_memcg))
+                       page_counter_charge(&swap_memcg->memsw, 1);
+               page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, 1);
+       }
 
        /*
         * Interrupts should be disabled here because the caller holds the
@@ -5815,11 +5838,14 @@ int mem_cgroup_try_charge_swap(struct page *page, 
swp_entry_t entry)
        if (!memcg)
                return 0;
 
+       memcg = mem_cgroup_id_get_active(memcg);
+
        if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) &&
-           !page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->swap, 1, &counter))
+           !page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->swap, 1, &counter)) {
+               mem_cgroup_id_put(memcg);
                return -ENOMEM;
+       }
 
-       mem_cgroup_id_get(memcg);
        oldid = swap_cgroup_record(entry, mem_cgroup_id(memcg));
        VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(oldid, page);
        mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(memcg, true);
-- 
2.1.4

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