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>
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index c54e5df..bf7ae01 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -141,6 +141,31 @@
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 @@
{
}
+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)
{