[RFC PATCH v3 01/12] mm: memcontrol: move the objcg infrastructure out of CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Apr 21 2021 - 03:01:40 EST


Because memory allocations pinning memcgs for a long time - it exists
at a larger scale and is causing recurring problems in the real world:
page cache doesn't get reclaimed for a long time, or is used by the
second, third, fourth, ... instance of the same job that was restarted
into a new cgroup every time. Unreclaimable dying cgroups pile up,
waste memory, and make page reclaim very inefficient.

We can convert LRU pages and most other raw memcg pins to the objcg
direction to fix this problem, and then the page->memcg will always
point to an object cgroup pointer.

Therefore, the infrastructure of objcg no longer only serves
CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM. In this patch, we move the infrastructure of the
objcg out of the scope of the CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM so that the LRU pages
can reuse it to charge pages.

We know that the LRU pages are not accounted at the root level. But
the page->memcg_data points to the root_mem_cgroup. So the
page->memcg_data of the LRU pages always points to a valid pointer.
But the root_mem_cgroup dose not have an object cgroup. If we use
obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages, we should set the
page->memcg_data to a root object cgroup. So we also allocate an
object cgroup for the root_mem_cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++-
mm/memcontrol.c | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 0ce97eff79e2..53a19db9f8eb 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ struct memcg_cgwb_frn {
struct obj_cgroup {
struct percpu_ref refcnt;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
atomic_t nr_charged_bytes;
+#endif
union {
struct list_head list;
struct rcu_head rcu;
@@ -321,9 +323,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
int kmemcg_id;
enum memcg_kmem_state kmem_state;
+#endif
struct obj_cgroup __rcu *objcg;
struct list_head objcg_list; /* list of inherited objcgs */
-#endif

MEMCG_PADDING(_pad2_);

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e0c398fe7443..dae7ab2b1406 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -252,18 +252,16 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *vmpressure_to_css(struct vmpressure *vmpr)
return &container_of(vmpr, struct mem_cgroup, vmpressure)->css;
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
extern spinlock_t css_set_lock;

+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
static void obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
unsigned int nr_pages);

-static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
+static void obj_cgroup_release_uncharge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
{
- struct obj_cgroup *objcg = container_of(ref, struct obj_cgroup, refcnt);
unsigned int nr_bytes;
unsigned int nr_pages;
- unsigned long flags;

/*
* At this point all allocated objects are freed, and
@@ -291,6 +289,19 @@ static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)

if (nr_pages)
obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(objcg, nr_pages);
+}
+#else
+static inline void obj_cgroup_release_uncharge(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
+static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
+{
+ struct obj_cgroup *objcg = container_of(ref, struct obj_cgroup, refcnt);
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ obj_cgroup_release_uncharge(objcg);

spin_lock_irqsave(&css_set_lock, flags);
list_del(&objcg->list);
@@ -319,10 +330,14 @@ static struct obj_cgroup *obj_cgroup_alloc(void)
return objcg;
}

-static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
- struct mem_cgroup *parent)
+static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
struct obj_cgroup *objcg, *iter;
+ struct mem_cgroup *parent;
+
+ parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
+ if (!parent)
+ parent = root_mem_cgroup;

objcg = rcu_replace_pointer(memcg->objcg, NULL, true);

@@ -341,6 +356,7 @@ static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
percpu_ref_kill(&objcg->refcnt);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
/*
* This will be used as a shrinker list's index.
* The main reason for not using cgroup id for this:
@@ -3447,7 +3463,6 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read_u64(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
int memcg_id;

if (cgroup_memory_nokmem)
@@ -3460,14 +3475,6 @@ static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
if (memcg_id < 0)
return memcg_id;

- objcg = obj_cgroup_alloc();
- if (!objcg) {
- memcg_free_cache_id(memcg_id);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
- objcg->memcg = memcg;
- rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->objcg, objcg);
-
static_branch_enable(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);

memcg->kmemcg_id = memcg_id;
@@ -3491,8 +3498,6 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
if (!parent)
parent = root_mem_cgroup;

- memcg_reparent_objcgs(memcg, parent);
-
kmemcg_id = memcg->kmemcg_id;
BUG_ON(kmemcg_id < 0);

@@ -5036,8 +5041,8 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
memcg->socket_pressure = jiffies;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
memcg->kmemcg_id = -1;
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->objcg_list);
#endif
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->objcg_list);
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->cgwb_list);
for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_CGWB_FRN_CNT; i++)
@@ -5109,21 +5114,33 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
static int mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
+ struct obj_cgroup *objcg;

/*
* A memcg must be visible for expand_shrinker_info()
* by the time the maps are allocated. So, we allocate maps
* here, when for_each_mem_cgroup() can't skip it.
*/
- if (alloc_shrinker_info(memcg)) {
- mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
+ if (alloc_shrinker_info(memcg))
+ goto remove_id;
+
+ objcg = obj_cgroup_alloc();
+ if (!objcg)
+ goto free_shrinker;
+
+ objcg->memcg = memcg;
+ rcu_assign_pointer(memcg->objcg, objcg);

/* Online state pins memcg ID, memcg ID pins CSS */
refcount_set(&memcg->id.ref, 1);
css_get(css);
return 0;
+
+free_shrinker:
+ free_shrinker_info(memcg);
+remove_id:
+ mem_cgroup_id_remove(memcg);
+ return -ENOMEM;
}

static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
@@ -5147,6 +5164,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
page_counter_set_low(&memcg->memory, 0);

memcg_offline_kmem(memcg);
+ memcg_reparent_objcgs(memcg);
reparent_shrinker_deferred(memcg);
wb_memcg_offline(memcg);

--
2.11.0