mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty
Right now, when somebody needs to know the recursive memory statistics and events of a cgroup subtree, they need to walk the entire subtree and sum up the counters manually. There are two issues with this: 1. When a cgroup gets deleted, its stats are lost. The state counters should all be 0 at that point, of course, but the events are not. When this happens, the event counters, which are supposed to be monotonic, can go backwards in the parent cgroups. 2. During regular operation, we always have a certain number of lazily freed cgroups sitting around that have been deleted, have no tasks, but have a few cache pages remaining. These groups' statistics do not change until we eventually hit memory pressure, but somebody watching, say, memory.stat on an ancestor has to iterate those every time. This patch addresses both issues by introducing recursive counters at each level that are propagated from the write side whe...
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