memcg: mem+swap controller core
This patch implements per cgroup limit for usage of memory+swap. However
there are SwapCache, double counting of swap-cache and swap-entry is
avoided.
Mem+Swap controller works as following.
- memory usage is limited by memory.limit_in_bytes.
- memory + swap usage is limited by memory.memsw_limit_in_bytes.
This has following benefits.
- A user can limit total resource usage of mem+swap.
Without this, because memory resource controller doesn't take care of
usage of swap, a process can exhaust all the swap (by memory leak.)
We can avoid this case.
And Swap is shared resource but it cannot be reclaimed (goes back to memory)
until it's used. This characteristic can be trouble when the memory
is divided into some parts by cpuset or memcg.
Assume group A and group B.
After some application executes, the system can be..
Group A -- very large free memory space but occupy 99% of swap.
Group B -- under memory shortage but cannot use swap...it's nearly full.
Ability to set appropriate swap limit for each group is required.
Maybe someone wonder "why not swap but mem+swap ?"
- The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
mem+swap.
In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting
global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap.
Accounting target information is stored in swap_cgroup which is
per swap entry record.
Charge is done as following.
map
- charge page and memsw.
unmap
- uncharge page/memsw if not SwapCache.
swap-out (__delete_from_swap_cache)
- uncharge page
- record mem_cgroup information to swap_cgroup.
swap-in (do_swap_page)
- charged as page and memsw.
record in swap_cgroup is cleared.
memsw accounting is decremented.
swap-free (swap_free())
- if swap entry is freed, memsw is uncharged by PAGE_SIZE.
There are people work under never-swap environments and consider swap as
something bad. For such people, this mem+swap controller extension is just an
overhead. This overhead is avoided by config or boot option.
(see Kconfig. detail is not in this patch.)
TODO:
- maybe more optimization can be don in swap-in path. (but not very safe.)
But we just do simple accounting at this stage.
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: make resize limit hold mutex]
[hugh@veritas.com: memswap controller core swapcache fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index ba5189e..1358012 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2431,7 +2431,8 @@
lock_page(page);
delayacct_clear_flag(DELAYACCT_PF_SWAPIN);
- if (mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, &ptr) == -ENOMEM) {
+ if (mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(mm, page,
+ GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, &ptr) == -ENOMEM) {
ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
unlock_page(page);
goto out;
@@ -2449,8 +2450,20 @@
goto out_nomap;
}
- /* The page isn't present yet, go ahead with the fault. */
+ /*
+ * The page isn't present yet, go ahead with the fault.
+ *
+ * Be careful about the sequence of operations here.
+ * To get its accounting right, reuse_swap_page() must be called
+ * while the page is counted on swap but not yet in mapcount i.e.
+ * before page_add_anon_rmap() and swap_free(); try_to_free_swap()
+ * must be called after the swap_free(), or it will never succeed.
+ * And mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(), which uses the swp_entry
+ * in page->private, must be called before reuse_swap_page(),
+ * which may delete_from_swap_cache().
+ */
+ mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(page, ptr);
inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
if (write_access && reuse_swap_page(page)) {
@@ -2461,7 +2474,6 @@
flush_icache_page(vma, page);
set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, pte);
page_add_anon_rmap(page, vma, address);
- mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(page, ptr);
swap_free(entry);
if (vm_swap_full() || (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) || PageMlocked(page))