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As described in the split_page() comment, for the non-compound high order
page, the sub-pages must be freed individually.  If the memcg of the first
page is valid, the tail pages cannot be uncharged when be freed.

For example, when alloc_pages_exact is used to allocate 1MB continuous
physical memory, 2MB is charged(kmemcg is enabled and __GFP_ACCOUNT is
set).  When make_alloc_exact free the unused 1MB and free_pages_exact free
the applied 1MB, actually, only 4KB(one page) is uncharged.

Therefore, the memcg of the tail page needs to be set when splitting a
page.

Michel:

There are at least two explicit users of __GFP_ACCOUNT with
alloc_exact_pages added recently.  See 7efe8ef ("KVM: arm64:
Allocate stage-2 pgd pages with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT") and c419621
("KVM: s390: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations"), so this is not
just a theoretical issue.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304074053.65527-3-zhouguanghui1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhou Guanghui <zhouguanghui1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Cc: Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Zhou Guanghui authored and gregkh committed Mar 17, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -3313,6 +3313,7 @@ void split_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
for (i = 1; i < (1 << order); i++)
set_page_refcounted(page + i);
split_page_owner(page, 1 << order);
split_page_memcg(page, 1 << order);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(split_page);

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