tree 4c8cf1212ce7cea038deaf01a82e7b09efc67ebd
parent a88c769548047b21f76fd71e04b6a3300ff17160
author Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> 1449870024 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1449944134 -0800

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 <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>