On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Muchun Song wrote:
> If we reparent the slab objects to the root memcg, when we free
> the slab object, we need to update the per-memcg vmstats to keep
> it correct for the root memcg. Now this at least affects the vmstat
> of NR_KERNEL_STACK_KB for !CONFIG_VMAP_STACK when the thread stack
> size is smaller than the PAGE_SIZE.
>
> Fixes: ec9f02384f60 ("mm: workingset: fix vmstat counters for shadow nodes")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuc...@bytedance.com>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
I assume that without this fix that the root memcg's vmstat would always
be inflated if we reparented? If that's accurate, perhaps this is
deserving of a
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 5.3+
