Skip to content
Commit 8c2c2358 authored by Johannes Weiner's avatar Johannes Weiner Committed by Linus Torvalds
Browse files

net: tcp_memcontrol: properly detect ancestor socket pressure

When charging socket memory, the code currently checks only the local
page counter for excess to determine whether the memcg is under socket
pressure.  But even if the local counter is fine, one of the ancestors
could have breached its limit, which should also force this child to
enter socket pressure.  This currently doesn't happen.

Fix this by using page_counter_try_charge() first.  If that fails, it
means that either the local counter or one of the ancestors are in
excess of their limit, and the child should enter socket pressure.

Fixes: 3e32cb2e

 ("mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 7d828602
0% or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment