Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix order calculation in try_charge()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 09:04:38 EST


[CC Andrew - the patch was posted here
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442318757-7141-1-git-send-email-jmarchan%40redhat.com]

On Tue 15-09-15 15:56:23, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 15-09-15 14:05:57, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> > Since commit <6539cc05386> (mm: memcontrol: fold mem_cgroup_do_charge()),
> > the order to pass to mem_cgroup_oom() is calculated by passing the number
> > of pages to get_order() instead of the expected size in bytes. AFAICT,
> > it only affects the value displayed in the oom warning message.
> > This patch fix this.
>
> We haven't noticed that just because the OOM is enabled only for page
> faults of order-0 (single page) and get_order work just fine. Thanks for
> noticing this. If we ever start triggering OOM on different orders this
> would be broken.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Btw. a quick git grep shows that at least gart_iommu_init is using
> number of pages as well. I haven't checked it does that intentionally,
> though.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > ---
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 1742a2d..91bf094 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -2032,7 +2032,8 @@ retry:
> >
> > mem_cgroup_events(mem_over_limit, MEMCG_OOM, 1);
> >
> > - mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask, get_order(nr_pages));
> > + mem_cgroup_oom(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask,
> > + get_order(nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
> > nomem:
> > if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_NOFAIL))
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > --
> > 1.9.3
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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