Roman Gushchin 172b06c32b mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects ... 9092c71bb7 ("mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets") changed the way that the target slab pressure is calculated and made it priority-based: delta = freeable >> priority; delta *= 4; do_div(delta, shrinker->seeks); The problem is that on a default priority (which is 12) no pressure is applied at all, if the number of potentially reclaimable objects is less than 4096 (1<<12). This causes the last objects on slab caches of no longer used cgroups to (almost) never get reclaimed. It's obviously a waste of memory. It can be especially painful, if these stale objects are holding a reference to a dying cgroup. Slab LRU lists are reparented on memcg offlining, but corresponding objects are still holding a reference to the dying cgroup. If we don't scan these objects, the dying cgroup can't go away. Most likely, the parent cgroup hasn't any directly charged objects, only remaining objects from dying children cgroups. So it can easily hold a reference to hundreds of dying cgroups. If there are no big spikes in memory pressure, and new memory cgroups are created and destroyed periodically, this causes the number of dying cgroups grow steadily, causing a slow-ish and hard-to-detect memory "leak". It's not a real leak, as the memory can be eventually reclaimed, but it could not happen in a real life at all. I've seen hosts with a steadily climbing number of dying cgroups, which doesn't show any signs of a decline in months, despite the host is loaded with a production workload. It is an obvious waste of memory, and to prevent it, let's apply a minimal pressure even on small shrinker lists. E.g. if there are freeable objects, let's scan at least min(freeable, scan_batch) objects. This fix significantly improves a chance of a dying cgroup to be reclaimed, and together with some previous patches stops the steady growth of the dying cgroups number on some of our hosts. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180905230759.12236-1-guro@fb.com Fixes: 9092c71bb7 ("mm: use sc->priority for slab shrink targets") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>		2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
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backing-dev.c
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c
cma_debug.c
cma.c
cma.h
compaction.c
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c
failslab.c
filemap.c
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c
gup_benchmark.c
gup.c
highmem.c
hmm.c
huge_memory.c
hugetlb_cgroup.c
hugetlb.c
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c
internal.h
interval_tree.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c
ksm.c
list_lru.c
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memblock.c
memcontrol.c
memfd.c
memory_hotplug.c
memory-failure.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
memtest.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c
page_counter.c
page_ext.c
page_idle.c
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page_owner.c
page_poison.c
page_vma_mapped.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
percpu-internal.h
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
rodata_test.c
shmem.c
slab_common.c
slab.c
slab.h
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
truncate.c
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c
vmpressure.c
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vmstat.c
workingset.c
z3fold.c
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c
zswap.c