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Revision bb65f89b7d3d305c14951f49860711fbcae70692 authored by Roman Gushchin on 25 August 2019, 00:54:50 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 25 August 2019, 02:48:42 UTC
Similar to vmstats, percpu caching of local vmevents leads to an
accumulation of errors on non-leaf levels.  This happens because some
leftovers may remain in percpu caches, so that they are never propagated
up by the cgroup tree and just disappear into nonexistence with on
releasing of the memory cgroup.

To fix this issue let's accumulate and propagate percpu vmevents values
before releasing the memory cgroup similar to what we're doing with
vmstats.

Since on cpu hotplug we do flush percpu vmstats anyway, we can iterate
only over online cpus.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190819202338.363363-4-guro@fb.com
Fixes: 42a300353577 ("mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: bb65f89b7d3d305c14951f49860711fbcae70692 authored by Roman Gushchin on 25 August 2019, 00:54:50 UTC
mm: memcontrol: flush percpu vmevents before releasing memcg
Tip revision: bb65f89
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