[RFC PATCH 1/8] memcg: refactor updating memcg->moving_account

From: Yosry Ahmed
Date: Thu Jul 20 2023 - 03:08:41 EST


memcg->moving_account is used to signal that a memcg move is taking
place, so that folio_memcg_lock() would start acquiring the per-memcg
move lock instead of just initiating an rcu read section.

Refactor incrementing and decrementing memcg->moving_account, together
with rcu synchornization and the elaborate comment into helpers, to
allow for reuse by incoming patches.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e8ca4bdcb03c..ffdb848f4003 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6305,16 +6305,26 @@ static const struct mm_walk_ops charge_walk_ops = {
.pmd_entry = mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range,
};

-static void mem_cgroup_move_charge(void)
+static void mem_cgroup_start_move_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- lru_add_drain_all();
/*
* Signal folio_memcg_lock() to take the memcg's move_lock
* while we're moving its pages to another memcg. Then wait
* for already started RCU-only updates to finish.
*/
- atomic_inc(&mc.from->moving_account);
+ atomic_inc(&memcg->moving_account);
synchronize_rcu();
+}
+
+static void mem_cgroup_end_move_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ atomic_dec(&memcg->moving_account);
+}
+
+static void mem_cgroup_move_charge(void)
+{
+ lru_add_drain_all();
+ mem_cgroup_start_move_charge(mc.from);
retry:
if (unlikely(!mmap_read_trylock(mc.mm))) {
/*
@@ -6334,7 +6344,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_move_charge(void)
*/
walk_page_range(mc.mm, 0, ULONG_MAX, &charge_walk_ops, NULL);
mmap_read_unlock(mc.mm);
- atomic_dec(&mc.from->moving_account);
+ mem_cgroup_end_move_charge(mc.from);
}

static void mem_cgroup_move_task(void)
--
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