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    mm: memcontrol: do not bypass slab charge if memcg is offline · fcff7d7e
    Vladimir Davydov authored
    
    
    Slab pages are charged in two steps.  First, an appropriate per memcg
    cache is selected (see memcg_kmem_get_cache) basing on the current
    context, then the new slab page is charged to the memory cgroup which
    the selected cache was created for (see memcg_charge_slab ->
    __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg).  It is OK to bypass kmemcg charge at step 1,
    but if step 1 succeeded and we successfully allocated a new slab page,
    step 2 must be performed, otherwise we would get a per memcg kmem cache
    which contains a slab that does not hold a reference to the memory
    cgroup owning the cache.  Since per memcg kmem caches are destroyed on
    memcg css free, this could result in freeing a cache while there are
    still active objects in it.
    
    However, currently we will bypass slab page charge if the memory cgroup
    owning the cache is offline (see __memcg_kmem_charge_memcg).  This is
    very unlikely to occur in practice, because for this to happen a process
    must be migrated to a different cgroup and the old cgroup must be
    removed while the process is in kmalloc somewhere between steps 1 and 2
    (e.g.  trying to allocate a new page).  Nevertheless, it's still better
    to eliminate such a possibility.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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