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blkcg, writeback: dead memcgs shouldn't contribute to writeback ownership arbitration
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thu, 13 Jun 2019 22:30:41 +0000 (15:30 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 05:28:25 +0000 (07:28 +0200)
commitfa9900ef8f0991956d666dfe466868b6ebc11bc6
tree8bb6e8021c5dee01a5a8037c8b58d35f34656078
parentc71deba0f27eae5e971099f094a71b8da55499e2
blkcg, writeback: dead memcgs shouldn't contribute to writeback ownership arbitration

[ Upstream commit 6631142229005e1b1c311a09efe9fb3cfdac8559 ]

wbc_account_io() collects information on cgroup ownership of writeback
pages to determine which cgroup should own the inode.  Pages can stay
associated with dead memcgs but we want to avoid attributing IOs to
dead blkcgs as much as possible as the association is likely to be
stale.  However, currently, pages associated with dead memcgs
contribute to the accounting delaying and/or confusing the
arbitration.

Fix it by ignoring pages associated with dead memcgs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/fs-writeback.c