mm, memcg: reset memory.low during memcg offlining
A removed memory cgroup with a defined memory.low and some belonging pagecache has very low chances to be freed. If a cgroup has been removed, there is likely no memory pressure inside the cgroup, and the pagecache is protected from the external pressure by the defined low limit. The cgroup will be freed only after the reclaim of all belonging pages. And it will not happen until there are any reclaimable memory in the system. That means, there is a good chance, that a cold pagecache will reside in the memory for an undefined amount of time, wasting system resources. This problem was fixed earlier by fa06235b ("cgroup: reset css on destruction"), but it's not a best way to do it, as we can't really reset all limits/counters during cgroup offlining. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170727130428.28856-1-guro@fb.comSigned-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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