Make @root exclusive in mem_cgroup_low; it is never considered low when
looked at directly and is not checked when traversing the tree.  In
effect, @root is handled identically to how root_mem_cgroup was
previously handled by mem_cgroup_low.

If @root is not excluded from the checks, a cgroup underneath @root will
never be considered low during targeted reclaim of @root, e.g.  due to
memory.current > memory.high, unless @root is misconfigured to have
memory.low > memory.high.

Excluding @root enables using memory.low to prioritize memory usage
between cgroups within a subtree of the hierarchy that is limited by
memory.high or memory.max, e.g.  when ROOT owns @root's controls but
delegates the @root directory to a USER so that USER can create and
administer children of @root.

For example, given cgroup A with children B and C:

    A
   / \
  B   C

and

  1. A/memory.current > A/memory.high
  2. A/B/memory.current < A/B/memory.low
  3. A/C/memory.current >= A/C/memory.low

As 'A' is high, i.e.  triggers reclaim from 'A', and 'B' is low, we
should reclaim from 'C' until 'A' is no longer high or until we can no
longer reclaim from 'C'.  If 'A', i.e.  @root, isn't excluded by
mem_cgroup_low when reclaming from 'A', then 'B' won't be considered low
and we will reclaim indiscriminately from both 'B' and 'C'.

Here is the test I used to confirm the bug and the patch.

20:00:55@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ cat ~/.bin/memcg_low_test
#!/bin/bash

x62mb=$((62<<20))
x66mb=$((66<<20))
x94mb=$((94<<20))
x98mb=$((98<<20))

setup() {
    set -e

    if [[ -n $DEBUG ]]; then
        set -x
    fi

    trap teardown EXIT HUP INT TERM

    if [[ ! -e /mnt/1gb.swap ]]; then
        sudo fallocate -l 1G /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null
        sudo mkswap /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null
    fi
    if ! swapon --show=NAME | grep -q "/mnt/1gb.swap"; then
        sudo swapon /mnt/1gb.swap
    fi

    if [[ ! -e /cgroup/cgroup.controllers ]]; then
        sudo mount -t cgroup2 none /cgroup
    fi

    grep -q memory /cgroup/cgroup.controllers

    sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control"

    sudo mkdir /cgroup/A && sudo chown $USER:$USER /cgroup/A
    sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/A/cgroup.subtree_control"
    sudo sh -c "echo '96m' > /cgroup/A/memory.high"

    mkdir /cgroup/A/0
    mkdir /cgroup/A/1

    echo 64m > /cgroup/A/0/memory.low
}

teardown() {
    set +e

    trap - EXIT HUP INT TERM

    if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
        printf "\n"
        printf "%0.s*" {1..35}
        printf "\nFAILED!\n\n"
        tail /cgroup/A/**/memory.current
        printf "%0.s*" {1..35}
        printf "\n\n"
    fi

    ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill %

    sleep 2

    if [[ -e /cgroup/A/0 ]]; then
        rmdir /cgroup/A/0
    fi
    if [[ -e /cgroup/A/1 ]]; then
        rmdir /cgroup/A/1
    fi
    if [[ -e /cgroup/A ]]; then
        sudo rmdir /cgroup/A
    fi
}

stress_test() {
    sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$1/cgroup.procs"
    stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null &

    sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$2/cgroup.procs"
    stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null &

    sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/cgroup.procs"

    sleep 1

    # A/0 should be consuming more memory than A/1
    [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $(cat /cgroup/A/1/memory.current) ]]

    # A/0 should be consuming ~64mb
    [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $x62mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -le $x66mb ]]

    # A should cumulatively be consuming ~96mb
    [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -ge $x94mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -le $x98mb ]]

    # Stop the stressors
    ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill %
}

teardown 1
setup

for ((i=1;i<=$1;i++)); do
    printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 0 1"
    stress_test 0 1
    printf "\x1b[2K\r"

    printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 1 0"
    stress_test 1 0
    printf "\x1b[2K\r"

    printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - PASSED\n"
done

teardown 1

echo PASSED!

20:11:26@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ memcg_low_test 10

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496434412-21005-1-git-send-email-sean.j.christopherson@intel.comSigned-off-by: NSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Acked-by: NVladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NBalbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>