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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2014-08-08 14:19:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-08 15:57:17 -0700
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mm: memcontrol: rewrite uncharge API
The memcg uncharging code that is involved towards the end of a page's lifetime - truncation, reclaim, swapout, migration - is impressively complicated and fragile. Because anonymous and file pages were always charged before they had their page->mapping established, uncharges had to happen when the page type could still be known from the context; as in unmap for anonymous, page cache removal for file and shmem pages, and swap cache truncation for swap pages. However, these operations happen well before the page is actually freed, and so a lot of synchronization is necessary: - Charging, uncharging, page migration, and charge migration all need to take a per-page bit spinlock as they could race with uncharging. - Swap cache truncation happens during both swap-in and swap-out, and possibly repeatedly before the page is actually freed. This means that the memcg swapout code is called from many contexts that make no sense and it has to figure out the direction from page state to make sure memory and memory+swap are always correctly charged. - On page migration, the old page might be unmapped but then reused, so memcg code has to prevent untimely uncharging in that case. Because this code - which should be a simple charge transfer - is so special-cased, it is not reusable for replace_page_cache(). But now that charged pages always have a page->mapping, introduce mem_cgroup_uncharge(), which is called after the final put_page(), when we know for sure that nobody is looking at the page anymore. For page migration, introduce mem_cgroup_migrate(), which is called after the migration is successful and the new page is fully rmapped. Because the old page is no longer uncharged after migration, prevent double charges by decoupling the page's memcg association (PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup) from the page holding an actual charge. The new bits PCG_MEM and PCG_MEMSW represent the respective charges and are transferred to the new page during migration. mem_cgroup_migrate() is suitable for replace_page_cache() as well, which gets rid of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(). However, care needs to be taken because both the source and the target page can already be charged and on the LRU when fuse is splicing: grab the page lock on the charge moving side to prevent changing pc->mem_cgroup of a page under migration. Also, the lruvecs of both pages change as we uncharge the old and charge the new during migration, and putback may race with us, so grab the lru lock and isolate the pages iff on LRU to prevent races and ensure the pages are on the right lruvec afterward. Swap accounting is massively simplified: because the page is no longer uncharged as early as swap cache deletion, a new mem_cgroup_swapout() can transfer the page's memory+swap charge (PCG_MEMSW) to the swap entry before the final put_page() in page reclaim. Finally, page_cgroup changes are now protected by whatever protection the page itself offers: anonymous pages are charged under the page table lock, whereas page cache insertions, swapin, and migration hold the page lock. Uncharging happens under full exclusion with no outstanding references. Charging and uncharging also ensure that the page is off-LRU, which serializes against charge migration. Remove the very costly page_cgroup lock and set pc->flags non-atomically. [mhocko@suse.cz: mem_cgroup_charge_statistics needs preempt_disable] [vdavydov@parallels.com: fix flags definition] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Tested-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/memcontrol.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memcontrol.h49
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 1a9a096858e0..806b8fa15c5f 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -60,15 +60,17 @@ void mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
bool lrucare);
void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
-struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(struct zone *, struct mem_cgroup *);
-struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *, struct zone *);
+void mem_cgroup_uncharge(struct page *page);
+
+/* Batched uncharging */
+void mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(void);
+void mem_cgroup_uncharge_end(void);
-/* For coalescing uncharge for reducing memcg' overhead*/
-extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(void);
-extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_end(void);
+void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage,
+ bool lrucare);
-extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page);
-extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(struct page *page);
+struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(struct zone *, struct mem_cgroup *);
+struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *, struct zone *);
bool __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(const struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg,
struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
@@ -96,12 +98,6 @@ bool mm_match_cgroup(const struct mm_struct *mm, const struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
extern struct cgroup_subsys_state *mem_cgroup_css(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
-extern void
-mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page, struct page *newpage,
- struct mem_cgroup **memcgp);
-extern void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage, bool migration_ok);
-
struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *,
struct mem_cgroup *,
struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie *);
@@ -116,8 +112,6 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_get_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec, enum lru_list);
void mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(struct lruvec *, enum lru_list, int);
extern void mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
struct task_struct *p);
-extern void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
- struct page *newpage);
static inline void mem_cgroup_oom_enable(void)
{
@@ -235,19 +229,21 @@ static inline void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(struct page *page,
{
}
-static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(void)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge(struct page *page)
{
}
-static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_end(void)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_start(void)
{
}
-static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(struct page *page)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_end(void)
{
}
-static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page(struct page *page)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_migrate(struct page *oldpage,
+ struct page *newpage,
+ bool lrucare)
{
}
@@ -286,17 +282,6 @@ static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state
return NULL;
}
-static inline void
-mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page, struct page *newpage,
- struct mem_cgroup **memcgp)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- struct page *oldpage, struct page *newpage, bool migration_ok)
-{
-}
-
static inline struct mem_cgroup *
mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
struct mem_cgroup *prev,
@@ -392,10 +377,6 @@ static inline
void mem_cgroup_count_vm_event(struct mm_struct *mm, enum vm_event_item idx)
{
}
-static inline void mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(struct page *oldpage,
- struct page *newpage)
-{
-}
#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
#if !defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) || !defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM)