[PATCH v3 08/12] mm: memcontrol: introduce memcg_reparent_ops

From: Muchun Song
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 06:52:57 EST


In the previous patch, we know how to make the lruvec lock safe when LRU
pages are reparented. We should do something like following.

memcg_reparent_objcgs(memcg)
1) lock
// lruvec belongs to memcg and lruvec_parent belongs to parent memcg.
spin_lock(&lruvec->lru_lock);
spin_lock(&lruvec_parent->lru_lock);

2) do reparent
// Move all the pages from the lruvec list to the parent lruvec list.

3) unlock
spin_unlock(&lruvec_parent->lru_lock);
spin_unlock(&lruvec->lru_lock);

Apart from the page lruvec lock, the deferred split queue lock (THP only)
also needs to do something similar. So we extract the necessary three steps
in the memcg_reparent_objcgs().

memcg_reparent_objcgs(memcg)
1) lock
memcg_reparent_ops->lock(memcg, parent);

2) reparent
memcg_reparent_ops->reparent(memcg, reparent);

3) unlock
memcg_reparent_ops->unlock(memcg, reparent);

Now there are two different locks (e.g. lruvec lock and deferred split
queue lock) need to use this infrastructure. In the next patch, we will
use those APIs to make those locks safe when the LRU pages reparented.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 +++++++
mm/memcontrol.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 6e0f7104f2fa..3c841c155f0d 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -346,6 +346,13 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
struct mem_cgroup_per_node *nodeinfo[];
};

+struct memcg_reparent_ops {
+ /* Irq is disabled before calling those callbacks. */
+ void (*lock)(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *parent);
+ void (*unlock)(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *parent);
+ void (*reparent)(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mem_cgroup *parent);
+};
+
/*
* size of first charge trial. "32" comes from vmscan.c's magic value.
* TODO: maybe necessary to use big numbers in big irons.
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index dd2602149ef3..6a393fe8e589 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -336,6 +336,35 @@ static struct obj_cgroup *obj_cgroup_alloc(void)
return objcg;
}

+static const struct memcg_reparent_ops *memcg_reparent_ops[] = {};
+
+static void memcg_reparent_lock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ struct mem_cgroup *parent)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(memcg_reparent_ops); i++)
+ memcg_reparent_ops[i]->lock(memcg, parent);
+}
+
+static void memcg_reparent_unlock(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ struct mem_cgroup *parent)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(memcg_reparent_ops); i++)
+ memcg_reparent_ops[i]->unlock(memcg, parent);
+}
+
+static void memcg_do_reparent(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+ struct mem_cgroup *parent)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(memcg_reparent_ops); i++)
+ memcg_reparent_ops[i]->reparent(memcg, parent);
+}
+
static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
struct obj_cgroup *objcg, *iter;
@@ -345,9 +374,11 @@ static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
if (!parent)
parent = root_mem_cgroup;

+ local_irq_disable();
+ memcg_reparent_lock(memcg, parent);
objcg = rcu_replace_pointer(memcg->objcg, NULL, true);

- spin_lock_irq(&objcg_lock);
+ spin_lock(&objcg_lock);

/* 1) Ready to reparent active objcg. */
list_add(&objcg->list, &memcg->objcg_list);
@@ -357,7 +388,11 @@ static void memcg_reparent_objcgs(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
/* 3) Move already reparented objcgs to the parent's list */
list_splice(&memcg->objcg_list, &parent->objcg_list);

- spin_unlock_irq(&objcg_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&objcg_lock);
+
+ memcg_do_reparent(memcg, parent);
+ memcg_reparent_unlock(memcg, parent);
+ local_irq_enable();

percpu_ref_kill(&objcg->refcnt);
}
--
2.11.0