mm: memcontrol: do not uncharge old page in page cache replacement
Changing page->mem_cgroup of a live page is tricky and fragile. In
particular, the memcg writeback code relies on that mapping being stable
and users of mem_cgroup_replace_page() not overlapping with dirtyable
inodes.
Page cache replacement doesn't have to do that, though. Instead of being
clever and transferring the charge from the old page to the new,
force-charge the new page and leave the old page alone. A temporary
overcharge won't matter in practice, and the old page is going to be freed
shortly after this anyway. And this is not performance critical.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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