From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH stable 4.6+] radix-tree: account nodes to memcg only if explicitly requested
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 05:51:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160803035139.GB31125@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470141934-4568-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 03:45:34PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Radix trees may be used not only for storing page cache pages, so
> unconditionally accounting radix tree nodes to the current memory cgroup
> is bad: if a radix tree node is used for storing data shared among
> different cgroups we risk pinning dead memory cgroups forever. So let's
> only account radix tree nodes if it was explicitly requested by passing
> __GFP_ACCOUNT to INIT_RADIX_TREE. Currently, we only want to account
> page cache entries, so mark mapping->page_tree so.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.6+]
> ---
> fs/inode.c | 2 +-
> lib/radix-tree.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Is this patch in Linus's tree already?
confused,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-02 12:45 Vladimir Davydov
2016-08-03 3:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-08-03 8:15 ` Vladimir Davydov
2016-08-03 8:29 ` Greg KH
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