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memcg: move all acccounting to parent at rmdir()

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This patch provides a function to move account information of a page
between mem_cgroups and rewrite force_empty to make use of this.

This moving of page_cgroup is done under
 - lru_lock of source/destination mem_cgroup is held.
 - lock_page_cgroup() is held.

Then, a routine which touches pc->mem_cgroup without lock_page_cgroup()
should confirm pc->mem_cgroup is still valid or not.  Typical code can be
following.

(while page is not under lock_page())
	mem = pc->mem_cgroup;
	mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc)
	spin_lock_irqsave(&mz->lru_lock);
	if (pc->mem_cgroup == mem)
		...../* some list handling */
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mz->lru_lock);

Of course, better way is
	lock_page_cgroup(pc);
	....
	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);

But you should confirm the nest of lock and avoid deadlock.

If you treats page_cgroup from mem_cgroup's LRU under mz->lru_lock,
you don't have to worry about what pc->mem_cgroup points to.
moved pages are added to head of lru, not to tail.

Expected users of this routine is:
  - force_empty (rmdir)
  - moving tasks between cgroup (for moving account information.)
  - hierarchy (maybe useful.)

force_empty(rmdir) uses this move_account and move pages to its parent.
This "move" will not cause OOM (I added "oom" parameter to try_charge().)

If the parent is busy (not enough memory), force_empty calls try_to_free_page()
and reduce usage.

Purpose of this behavior is
  - Fix "forget all" behavior of force_empty and avoid leak of accounting.
  - By "moving first, free if necessary", keep pages on memory as much as
    possible.

Adding a switch to change behavior of force_empty to
  - free first, move if necessary
  - free all, if there is mlocked/busy pages, return -EBUSY.
is under consideration. (I'll add if someone requtests.)

This patch also removes memory.force_empty file, a brutal debug-only interface.

Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2009-01-07 18:07:53 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -207,12 +207,6 @@ exceeded.
The memory.stat file gives accounting information. Now, the number of
caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown.
The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force.
# echo 1 > memory.force_empty
will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test.
4. Testing
Balbir posted lmbench, AIM9, LTP and vmmstress results [10] and [11].
@ -242,8 +236,10 @@ reclaimed.
A cgroup can be removed by rmdir, but as discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2, a
cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all
tasks have migrated away from it. Such charges are automatically dropped at
rmdir() if there are no tasks.
tasks have migrated away from it.
Such charges are moved to its parent as much as possible and freed if parent
is full. Both of RSS and CACHES are moved to parent.
If both of them are busy, rmdir() returns -EBUSY.
5. TODO