[PATCH] mm: preallocate page before lock_page at filemap COW.(WasRe: [PATCH V2] mm: Do not keep page locked during page fault whilecharging it for memcg

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:02:04 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu 23-06-11 17:08:11, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:41:33 +0200
> > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
> > > Other than that:
> > > Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > 
> > I found the page is added to LRU before charging. (In this case,
> > memcg's LRU is ignored.) I'll post a new version with a fix.
> 
> Yes, you are right. I have missed that.
> This means that we might race with reclaim which could evict the COWed
> page wich in turn would uncharge that page even though we haven't
> charged it yet.
> 
> Can we postpone page_add_new_anon_rmap to the charging path or it would
> just race somewhere else?
> 

I got a different idea. How about this ?
I think this will have benefit for non-memcg users under OOM, too.

A concerns is VM_FAULT_RETRY case but wait-for-lock will be much heavier
than preallocation + free-for-retry cost.

(I'm sorry I'll not be very active until the next week, so feel free to
 post your own version if necessary.)

This is onto -rc4 and worked well on my test.

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