Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] mm/swap: always account swapped in page into current memcg

From: Huang, Ying
Date: Tue Jan 30 2024 - 01:14:59 EST


Kairui Song <ryncsn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> From: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Currently, mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio is always called with
> mm == NULL, except in swapin_direct.
>
> swapin_direct is only used when swapin should skip readahead
> and swapcache (SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO). All other callers of
> mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio are for swapin that should
> not skip readahead and cache.
>
> This could cause swapin charging to behave differently depending
> on swap device, which is unexpected.
>
> This is currently not happening because the only caller of
> swapin_direct is the direct anon page fault path, where mm always
> equals to current->mm, but will no longer be true if swapin_direct
> is shared and have other callers (eg, swapoff) to share the
> readahead skipping logic.
>
> So make swapin_direct also pass NULL for mm, so swpain charge
> will behave consistently and not effected by type of swapin device
> or readahead policy.
>
> After this, the second param of mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio is
> never used now, so it can be safely dropped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++--
> mm/memcontrol.c | 5 ++---
> mm/swap_state.c | 7 +++----
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 20ff87f8e001..540590d80958 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm,
> int mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp,
> long nr_pages);
>
> -int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm,
> +int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio,
> gfp_t gfp, swp_entry_t entry);
> void mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t entry);
>
> @@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
> }
>
> static inline int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio,
> - struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp, swp_entry_t entry)
> + gfp_t gfp, swp_entry_t entry)
> {
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index e4c8735e7c85..5852742df958 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -7306,8 +7306,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_hugetlb_try_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp,
> *
> * Returns 0 on success. Otherwise, an error code is returned.
> */
> -int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm,
> - gfp_t gfp, swp_entry_t entry)
> +int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio, gfp_t gfp, swp_entry_t entry)
> {
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> unsigned short id;
> @@ -7320,7 +7319,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(struct folio *folio, struct mm_struct *mm,
> rcu_read_lock();
> memcg = mem_cgroup_from_id(id);
> if (!memcg || !css_tryget_online(&memcg->css))
> - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(mm);
> + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_current();

The behavior of get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(NULL) and
get_mem_cgroup_from_current() isn't same exactly. Are you sure that
this is OK?

--
Best Regards,
Huang, Ying


> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> ret = charge_memcg(folio, memcg, gfp);
> diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> index 645f5bcad123..a450d09fc0db 100644
> --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> @@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ struct folio *__read_swap_cache_async(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> __folio_set_locked(folio);
> __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
>
> - if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, NULL, gfp_mask, entry))
> + if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, gfp_mask, entry))
> goto fail_unlock;
>
> /* May fail (-ENOMEM) if XArray node allocation failed. */
> @@ -884,9 +884,8 @@ struct folio *swapin_direct(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> __folio_set_locked(folio);
> __folio_set_swapbacked(folio);
>
> - if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio,
> - vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL,
> - entry)) {
> + if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, GFP_KERNEL,
> + entry)) {
> folio_unlock(folio);
> folio_put(folio);
> return NULL;