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Commit 3e38e0aa authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: memcg: charge memcg percpu memory to the parent cgroup

Memory cgroups are using large chunks of percpu memory to store vmstat
data.  Yet this memory is not accounted at all, so in the case when there
are many (dying) cgroups, it's not exactly clear where all the memory is.

Because the size of memory cgroup internal structures can dramatically
exceed the size of object or page which is pinning it in the memory, it's
not a good idea to simply ignore it.  It actually breaks the isolation
between cgroups.

Let's account the consumed percpu memory to the parent cgroup.

[guro@fb.com: add WARN_ON_ONCE()s, per Johannes]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200811170611.GB1507044@carbon.DHCP.thefacebook.com



Signed-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623184515.4132564-5-guro@fb.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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