mm, memcg: reset memory.low during memcg offlining

A removed memory cgroup with a defined memory.low and some belonging
pagecache has very low chances to be freed.

If a cgroup has been removed, there is likely no memory pressure inside
the cgroup, and the pagecache is protected from the external pressure by
the defined low limit.  The cgroup will be freed only after the reclaim
of all belonging pages.  And it will not happen until there are any
reclaimable memory in the system.  That means, there is a good chance,
that a cold pagecache will reside in the memory for an undefined amount
of time, wasting system resources.

This problem was fixed earlier by fa06235b8eb0 ("cgroup: reset css on
destruction"), but it's not a best way to do it, as we can't really
reset all limits/counters during cgroup offlining.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e09741af816f..2926c44519b6 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4319,6 +4319,8 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&memcg->event_list_lock);
 
+	memcg->low = 0;
+
 	memcg_offline_kmem(memcg);
 	wb_memcg_offline(memcg);