This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
memcg: fix behavior of mem_cgroup_resize_limit()
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
memcg-fix-behavior-of-mem_cgroup_resize_limit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 108b6a78463bb8c7163e4f9779f36ad8bbade334 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:08:25 -0700
Subject: memcg: fix behavior of mem_cgroup_resize_limit()
From: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
commit 108b6a78463bb8c7163e4f9779f36ad8bbade334 upstream.
Commit 22a668d7c3ef ("memcg: fix behavior under memory.limit equals to
memsw.limit") introduced "memsw_is_minimum" flag, which becomes true
when mem_limit == memsw_limit. The flag is checked at the beginning of
reclaim, and "noswap" is set if the flag is true, because using swap is
meaningless in this case.
This works well in most cases, but when we try to shrink mem_limit,
which is the same as memsw_limit now, we might fail to shrink mem_limit
because swap doesn't used.
This patch fixes this behavior by:
- check MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SHRINK at the begining of reclaim
- If it is set, don't set "noswap" flag even if memsw_is_minimum is true.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Ying Han <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
excess = res_counter_soft_limit_excess(&root_mem->res) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
/* If memsw_is_minimum==1, swap-out is of-no-use. */
- if (!check_soft && root_mem->memsw_is_minimum)
+ if (!check_soft && !shrink && root_mem->memsw_is_minimum)
noswap = true;
while (1) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.0/memcg-fix-behavior-of-mem_cgroup_resize_limit.patch
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