mm/page_owner: print memcg information
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:59:46 +0000 (09:59 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 28 Feb 2022 22:59:46 +0000 (09:59 +1100)
commit512679fd54b2eaf9d94862f2e5db7712d7b69b05
tree1b34fc23fb91acd71f6201325fa738a5956c2f9e
parent9102228ca044331eec9d324ee033a19fb7312520
mm/page_owner: print memcg information

It was found that a number of offline memcgs were not freed because they
were pinned by some charged pages that were present.  Even "echo 1 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" wasn't able to free those pages.  These offline
but not freed memcgs tend to increase in number over time with the side
effect that percpu memory consumption as shown in /proc/meminfo also
increases over time.

In order to find out more information about those pages that pin offline
memcgs, the page_owner feature is extended to print memory cgroup
information especially whether the cgroup is offline or not.  RCU read
lock is taken when memcg is being accessed to make sure that it won't be
freed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220202203036.744010-4-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
mm/page_owner.c