mm/memcontrol: exclude @root from checks in mem_cgroup_low
Make @root exclusive in mem_cgroup_low; it is never considered low when
looked at directly and is not checked when traversing the tree. In
effect, @root is handled identically to how root_mem_cgroup was
previously handled by mem_cgroup_low.
If @root is not excluded from the checks, a cgroup underneath @root will
never be considered low during targeted reclaim of @root, e.g. due to
memory.current > memory.high, unless @root is misconfigured to have
memory.low > memory.high.
Excluding @root enables using memory.low to prioritize memory usage
between cgroups within a subtree of the hierarchy that is limited by
memory.high or memory.max, e.g. when ROOT owns @root's controls but
delegates the @root directory to a USER so that USER can create and
administer children of @root.
For example, given cgroup A with children B and C:
A
/ \
B C
and
1. A/memory.current > A/memory.high
2. A/B/memory.current < A/B/memory.low
3. A/C/memory.current >= A/C/memory.low
As 'A' is high, i.e. triggers reclaim from 'A', and 'B' is low, we
should reclaim from 'C' until 'A' is no longer high or until we can no
longer reclaim from 'C'. If 'A', i.e. @root, isn't excluded by
mem_cgroup_low when reclaming from 'A', then 'B' won't be considered low
and we will reclaim indiscriminately from both 'B' and 'C'.
Here is the test I used to confirm the bug and the patch.
20:00:55@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ cat ~/.bin/memcg_low_test
#!/bin/bash
x62mb=$((62<<20))
x66mb=$((66<<20))
x94mb=$((94<<20))
x98mb=$((98<<20))
setup() {
set -e
if [[ -n $DEBUG ]]; then
set -x
fi
trap teardown EXIT HUP INT TERM
if [[ ! -e /mnt/1gb.swap ]]; then
sudo fallocate -l 1G /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null
sudo mkswap /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null
fi
if ! swapon --show=NAME | grep -q "/mnt/1gb.swap"; then
sudo swapon /mnt/1gb.swap
fi
if [[ ! -e /cgroup/cgroup.controllers ]]; then
sudo mount -t cgroup2 none /cgroup
fi
grep -q memory /cgroup/cgroup.controllers
sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control"
sudo mkdir /cgroup/A && sudo chown $USER:$USER /cgroup/A
sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/A/cgroup.subtree_control"
sudo sh -c "echo '96m' > /cgroup/A/memory.high"
mkdir /cgroup/A/0
mkdir /cgroup/A/1
echo 64m > /cgroup/A/0/memory.low
}
teardown() {
set +e
trap - EXIT HUP INT TERM
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
printf "\n"
printf "%0.s*" {1..35}
printf "\nFAILED!\n\n"
tail /cgroup/A/**/memory.current
printf "%0.s*" {1..35}
printf "\n\n"
fi
ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill %
sleep 2
if [[ -e /cgroup/A/0 ]]; then
rmdir /cgroup/A/0
fi
if [[ -e /cgroup/A/1 ]]; then
rmdir /cgroup/A/1
fi
if [[ -e /cgroup/A ]]; then
sudo rmdir /cgroup/A
fi
}
stress_test() {
sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$1/cgroup.procs"
stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null &
sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$2/cgroup.procs"
stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null &
sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/cgroup.procs"
sleep 1
# A/0 should be consuming more memory than A/1
[[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $(cat /cgroup/A/1/memory.current) ]]
# A/0 should be consuming ~64mb
[[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $x62mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -le $x66mb ]]
# A should cumulatively be consuming ~96mb
[[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -ge $x94mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -le $x98mb ]]
# Stop the stressors
ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill %
}
teardown 1
setup
for ((i=1;i<=$1;i++)); do
printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 0 1"
stress_test 0 1
printf "\x1b[2K\r"
printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 1 0"
stress_test 1 0
printf "\x1b[2K\r"
printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - PASSED\n"
done
teardown 1
echo PASSED!
20:11:26@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ memcg_low_test 10
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496434412-21005-1-git-send-email-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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