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>
Fri, 26 Jul 2019 07:10:27 +0000 (09:10 +0200)
commitf92c955af769a5fffbab3a55a277374920c0f7fc
tree3e82bb9dc3364426a0555bf9cd6c164d2876bb23
parentc538dfa07348744b52a0a81190cce6e544a22a6c
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