memcg: fix memory.high target

When the memory.high threshold is exceeded, try_charge() schedules a
task_work to reclaim the excess.  The reclaim target is set to the
number of pages requested by try_charge().

This is wrong, because try_charge() usually charges more pages than
requested (batch > nr_pages) in order to refill per cpu stocks.  As a
result, a process in a cgroup can easily exceed memory.high
significantly when doing a lot of charges w/o returning to userspace
(e.g.  reading a file in big chunks).

Fix this issue by assuring that when exceeding memory.high a process
reclaims as many pages as were actually charged (i.e.  batch).

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Vladimir Davydov 2015-12-11 13:40:24 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 9516a18a9a

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@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@ done_restock:
*/
do {
if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) > memcg->high) {
current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += nr_pages;
current->memcg_nr_pages_over_high += batch;
set_notify_resume(current);
break;
}