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    memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications · 5a20c03a
    Greg Thelen authored
    commit 2bff24a3707093c435ab3241c47dcdb5f16e432b upstream.
    
    A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at least
    one threshold >=2G was not reliable.  Specifically the notifications would
    either not fire or would not fire in the proper order.
    
    The __mem_cgroup_threshold() signaling logic depends on keeping 64 bit
    thresholds in sorted order.  mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() sorts them
    with compare_thresholds(), which returns the difference of two 64 bit
    thresholds as an int.  If the difference is positive but has bit[31] set,
    then sort() treats the difference as negative and breaks sort order.
    
    This fix compares the two arbitrary 64 bit thresholds returning the
    classic -1, 0, 1 result.
    
    The test below sets two notifications (at 0x1000 and 0x81001000):
      cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
      mkdir x
      for x in 4096 2164264960; do
        cgroup_event_listener x/memory.usage_in_bytes $x | sed "s/^/$x listener:/" &
      done
      echo $$ > x/cgroup.procs
      anon_leaker 500M
    
    v3.11-rc7 fails to signal the 4096 event listener:
      Leaking...
      Done leaking pages.
    
    Patched v3.11-rc7 properly notifies:
      Leaking...
      4096 listener:2013:8:31:14:13:36
      Done leaking pages.
    
    The fixed bug is old.  It appears to date back to the introduction of
    memcg threshold notifications in v2.6.34-rc1-116-g2e72b634
    
     "memcg:
    implement memory thresholds"
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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