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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2012-03-21 16:34:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:55:01 -0700
commit89c06bd52fb9ffceddf84f7309d2e8c9f1666216 (patch)
tree43ec3d97a89988bc143bed5796bcd7bef64212dc /include
parent312734c04e2fecc58429aec98194e4ff12d8f7d6 (diff)
memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
Now, page-stat-per-memcg is recorded into per page_cgroup flag by duplicating page's status into the flag. The reason is that memcg has a feature to move a page from a group to another group and we have race between "move" and "page stat accounting", Under current logic, assume CPU-A and CPU-B. CPU-A does "move" and CPU-B does "page stat accounting". When CPU-A goes 1st, CPU-A CPU-B update "struct page" info. move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg) see pc->flags copy page stat to new group overwrite pc->mem_cgroup. move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg) move_lock_mem_cgroup(mem) set pc->flags update page stat accounting move_unlock_mem_cgroup(mem) stat accounting is guarded by move_lock_mem_cgroup() and "move" logic (CPU-A) doesn't see changes in "struct page" information. But it's costly to have the same information both in 'struct page' and 'struct page_cgroup'. And, there is a potential problem. For example, assume we have PG_dirty accounting in memcg. PG_..is a flag for struct page. PCG_ is a flag for struct page_cgroup. (This is just an example. The same problem can be found in any kind of page stat accounting.) CPU-A CPU-B TestSet PG_dirty (delay) TestClear PG_dirty if (TestClear(PCG_dirty)) memcg->nr_dirty-- if (TestSet(PCG_dirty)) memcg->nr_dirty++ Here, memcg->nr_dirty = +1, this is wrong. This race was reported by Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>. Now, only FILE_MAPPED is supported but fortunately, it's serialized by page table lock and this is not real bug, _now_, If this potential problem is caused by having duplicated information in struct page and struct page_cgroup, we may be able to fix this by using original 'struct page' information. But we'll have a problem in "move account" Assume we use only PG_dirty. CPU-A CPU-B TestSet PG_dirty (delay) move_lock_mem_cgroup() if (PageDirty(page)) new_memcg->nr_dirty++ pc->mem_cgroup = new_memcg; move_unlock_mem_cgroup() move_lock_mem_cgroup() memcg = pc->mem_cgroup new_memcg->nr_dirty++ accounting information may be double-counted. This was original reason to have PCG_xxx flags but it seems PCG_xxx has another problem. I think we need a bigger lock as move_lock_mem_cgroup(page) TestSetPageDirty(page) update page stats (without any checks) move_unlock_mem_cgroup(page) This fixes both of problems and we don't have to duplicate page flag into page_cgroup. Please note: move_lock_mem_cgroup() is held only when there are possibility of "account move" under the system. So, in most path, status update will go without atomic locks. This patch introduces mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() and mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat() both should be called at modifying 'struct page' information if memcg takes care of it. as mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() modify page information mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() => never check any 'struct page' info, just update counters. mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(). This patch is slow because we need to call begin_update_page_stat()/ end_update_page_stat() regardless of accounted will be changed or not. A following patch adds an easy optimization and reduces the cost. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lock/locked/] [hughd@google.com: fix deadlock by avoiding stat lock when anon] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/memcontrol.h35
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index c54e5dfa1962..bf7ae01fc93b 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -141,6 +141,31 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
return false;
}
+void __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page, bool *locked,
+ unsigned long *flags);
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *locked, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+ return;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ *locked = false;
+ return __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(page, locked, flags);
+}
+
+void __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ unsigned long *flags);
+static inline void mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *locked, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+ return;
+ if (*locked)
+ __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(page, flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx,
int val);
@@ -341,6 +366,16 @@ mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
{
}
+static inline void mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *locked, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *locked, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+}
+
static inline void mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx)
{