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authorJohannes Weiner <[email protected]>2020-06-03 16:02:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-06-03 20:09:48 -0700
commit4c6355b25e8bb83c3cb455f532b7542089699d98 (patch)
tree796e786492f8d00015c92b3390792bb3b1553f1b /scripts/gdb/linux/utils.py
parent2d1c498072de69e2857b849ee197ba2aa7de53a3 (diff)
mm: memcontrol: charge swapin pages on instantiation
Right now, users that are otherwise memory controlled can easily escape their containment and allocate significant amounts of memory that they're not being charged for. That's because swap readahead pages are not being charged until somebody actually faults them into their page table. This can be exploited with MADV_WILLNEED, which triggers arbitrary readahead allocations without charging the pages. There are additional problems with the delayed charging of swap pages: 1. To implement refault/workingset detection for anonymous pages, we need to have a target LRU available at swapin time, but the LRU is not determinable until the page has been charged. 2. To implement per-cgroup LRU locking, we need page->mem_cgroup to be stable when the page is isolated from the LRU; otherwise, the locks change under us. But swapcache gets charged after it's already on the LRU, and even if we cannot isolate it ourselves (since charging is not exactly optional). The previous patch ensured we always maintain cgroup ownership records for swap pages. This patch moves the swapcache charging point from the fault handler to swapin time to fix all of the above problems. v2: simplify swapin error checking (Joonsoo) [[email protected]: fix livelock in __read_swap_cache_async()] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]> Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]> Cc: Rafael Aquini <[email protected]> Cc: Alex Shi <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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