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Linus Torvalds
e4bc13adfd Merge branch 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull cgroup writeback support from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the big pull request for adding cgroup writeback support.

  This code has been in development for a long time, and it has been
  simmering in for-next for a good chunk of this cycle too.  This is one
  of those problems that has been talked about for at least half a
  decade, finally there's a solution and code to go with it.

  Also see last weeks writeup on LWN:

        http://lwn.net/Articles/648292/"

* 'for-4.2/writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (85 commits)
  writeback, blkio: add documentation for cgroup writeback support
  vfs, writeback: replace FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK with SB_I_CGROUPWB
  writeback: do foreign inode detection iff cgroup writeback is enabled
  v9fs: fix error handling in v9fs_session_init()
  bdi: fix wrong error return value in cgwb_create()
  buffer: remove unusued 'ret' variable
  writeback: disassociate inodes from dying bdi_writebacks
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode bdi_writeback switching
  writeback: add lockdep annotation to inode_to_wb()
  writeback: use unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction in inode_congested()
  writeback: implement unlocked_inode_to_wb transaction and use it for stat updates
  writeback: implement [locked_]inode_to_wb_and_lock_list()
  writeback: implement foreign cgroup inode detection
  writeback: make writeback_control track the inode being written back
  writeback: relocate wb[_try]_get(), wb_put(), inode_{attach|detach}_wb()
  mm: vmscan: disable memcg direct reclaim stalling if cgroup writeback support is in use
  writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
  writeback: reset wb_domain->dirty_limit[_tstmp] when memcg domain size changes
  writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
  writeback: update wb_over_bg_thresh() to use wb_domain aware operations
  ...
2015-06-25 16:00:17 -07:00
Tejun Heo
c2aa723a60 writeback: implement memcg writeback domain based throttling
While cgroup writeback support now connects memcg and blkcg so that
writeback IOs are properly attributed and controlled, the IO back
pressure propagation mechanism implemented in balance_dirty_pages()
and its subroutines wasn't aware of cgroup writeback.

Processes belonging to a memcg may have access to only subset of total
memory available in the system and not factoring this into dirty
throttling rendered it completely ineffective for processes under
memcg limits and memcg ended up building a separate ad-hoc degenerate
mechanism directly into vmscan code to limit page dirtying.

The previous patches updated balance_dirty_pages() and its subroutines
so that they can deal with multiple wb_domain's (writeback domains)
and defined per-memcg wb_domain.  Processes belonging to a non-root
memcg are bound to two wb_domains, global wb_domain and memcg
wb_domain, and should be throttled according to IO pressures from both
domains.  This patch updates dirty throttling code so that it repeats
similar calculations for the two domains - the differences between the
two are few and minor - and applies the lower of the two sets of
resulting constraints.

wb_over_bg_thresh(), which controls when background writeback
terminates, is also updated to consider both global and memcg
wb_domains.  It returns true if dirty is over bg_thresh for either
domain.

This makes the dirty throttling mechanism operational for memcg
domains including writeback-bandwidth-proportional dirty page
distribution inside them but the ad-hoc memcg throttling mechanism in
vmscan is still in place.  The next patch will rip it out.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:38:13 -06:00
Tejun Heo
841710aa6e writeback: implement memcg wb_domain
Dirtyable memory is distributed to a wb (bdi_writeback) according to
the relative bandwidth the wb is writing out in the whole system.
This distribution is global - each wb is measured against all other
wb's and gets the proportinately sized portion of the memory in the
whole system.

For cgroup writeback, the amount of dirtyable memory is scoped by
memcg and thus each wb would need to be measured and controlled in its
memcg.  IOW, a wb will belong to two writeback domains - the global
and memcg domains.

The previous patches laid the groundwork to support the two wb_domains
and this patch implements memcg wb_domain.  memcg->cgwb_domain is
initialized on css online and destroyed on css release,
wb->memcg_completions is added, and __wb_writeout_inc() is updated to
increment completions against both global and memcg wb_domains.

The following patches will update balance_dirty_pages() and its
subroutines to actually consider memcg wb_domain for throttling.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:38:13 -06:00
Tejun Heo
52ebea749a writeback: make backing_dev_info host cgroup-specific bdi_writebacks
For the planned cgroup writeback support, on each bdi
(backing_dev_info), each memcg will be served by a separate wb
(bdi_writeback).  This patch updates bdi so that a bdi can host
multiple wbs (bdi_writebacks).

On the default hierarchy, blkcg implicitly enables memcg.  This allows
using memcg's page ownership for attributing writeback IOs, and every
memcg - blkcg combination can be served by its own wb by assigning a
dedicated wb to each memcg.  This means that there may be multiple
wb's of a bdi mapped to the same blkcg.  As congested state is per
blkcg - bdi combination, those wb's should share the same congested
state.  This is achieved by tracking congested state via
bdi_writeback_congested structs which are keyed by blkcg.

bdi->wb remains unchanged and will keep serving the root cgroup.
cgwb's (cgroup wb's) for non-root cgroups are created on-demand or
looked up while dirtying an inode according to the memcg of the page
being dirtied or current task.  Each cgwb is indexed on bdi->cgwb_tree
by its memcg id.  Once an inode is associated with its wb, it can be
retrieved using inode_to_wb().

Currently, none of the filesystems has FS_CGROUP_WRITEBACK and all
pages will keep being associated with bdi->wb.

v3: inode_attach_wb() in account_page_dirtied() moved inside
    mapping_cap_account_dirty() block where it's known to be !NULL.
    Also, an unnecessary NULL check before kfree() removed.  Both
    detected by the kbuild bot.

v2: Updated so that wb association is per inode and wb is per memcg
    rather than blkcg.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:35 -06:00
Tejun Heo
ad7fa852d3 memcg: implement mem_cgroup_css_from_page()
Implement mem_cgroup_css_from_page() which returns the
cgroup_subsys_state of the memcg associated with a given page on the
default hierarchy.  This will be used by cgroup writeback support.

This function assumes that page->mem_cgroup association doesn't change
until the page is released, which is true on the default hierarchy as
long as replace_page_cache_page() is not used.  As the only user of
replace_page_cache_page() is FUSE which won't support cgroup writeback
for the time being, this works for now, and replace_page_cache_page()
will soon be updated so that the invariant actually holds.

Note that the RCU protected page->mem_cgroup access is consistent with
other usages across memcg but ultimately incorrect.  These unlocked
accesses are missing required barriers.  page->mem_cgroup should be
made an RCU pointer and updated and accessed using RCU operations.

v4: Instead of triggering WARN, return the root css on the traditional
    hierarchies.  This makes the function a lot easier to deal with
    especially as there's no light way to synchronize against
    hierarchy rebinding.

v3: s/mem_cgroup_migrate()/mem_cgroup_css_from_page()/

v2: Trigger WARN if the function is used on the traditional
    hierarchies and add comment about the assumed invariant.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:34 -06:00
Tejun Heo
56161634e4 memcg: add mem_cgroup_root_css
Add global mem_cgroup_root_css which points to the root memcg css.
This will be used by cgroup writeback support.  If memcg is disabled,
it's defined as ERR_PTR(-EINVAL).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
aCc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
Greg Thelen
c4843a7593 memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting
When modifying PG_Dirty on cached file pages, update the new
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DIRTY counter.  This is done in the same places where
global NR_FILE_DIRTY is managed.  The new memcg stat is visible in the
per memcg memory.stat cgroupfs file.  The most recent past attempt at
this was http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/8632

The new accounting supports future efforts to add per cgroup dirty
page throttling and writeback.  It also helps an administrator break
down a container's memory usage and provides evidence to understand
memcg oom kills (the new dirty count is included in memcg oom kill
messages).

The ability to move page accounting between memcg
(memory.move_charge_at_immigrate) makes this accounting more
complicated than the global counter.  The existing
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_page_stat() lock is used to serialize move
accounting with stat updates.
Typical update operation:
	memcg = mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat(page)
	if (TestSetPageDirty()) {
		[...]
		mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(memcg)
	}
	mem_cgroup_end_page_stat(memcg)

Summary of mem_cgroup_end_page_stat() overhead:
- Without CONFIG_MEMCG it's a no-op
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and no inter memcg task movement, it's just
  rcu_read_lock()
- With CONFIG_MEMCG and inter memcg  task movement, it's
  rcu_read_lock() + spin_lock_irqsave()

A memcg parameter is added to several routines because their callers
now grab mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() which returns the memcg later
needed by for mem_cgroup_update_page_stat().

Because mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat() may disable interrupts, some
adjustments are needed:
- move __mark_inode_dirty() from __set_page_dirty() to its caller.
  __mark_inode_dirty() locking does not want interrupts disabled.
- use spin_lock_irqsave(tree_lock) rather than spin_lock_irq() in
  __delete_from_page_cache(), replace_page_cache_page(),
  invalidate_complete_page2(), and __remove_mapping().

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8925339 1774832 1785856 12486027 be858b vmlinux-!CONFIG_MEMCG-after
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8966750 1784992 1785856 12537598 bf4efe vmlinux-CONFIG_MEMCG-after
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Performance tests run on v4.0-rc1-36-g4f671fe2f952.  Lower is better for
all metrics, they're all wall clock or cycle counts.  The read and write
fault benchmarks just measure fault time, they do not include I/O time.

* CONFIG_MEMCG not set:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.030000(+-0.088% 3 samples)       1m25.426667(+-0.120% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.859211561 +-15.10%                  0.874162885 +-15.03%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.670653105 +-17.87%                  1.669384764 +-11.99%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.434691190 +-14.15%                  8.474733215 +-14.77%
  read fault cycles       254.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            253.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2021.2(+-3.070% 10 samples)           1984.5(+-1.036% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m25.716667(+-0.105% 3 samples)       1m25.686667(+-0.153% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.855650830 +-14.90%                  0.887557919 +-14.90%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.688322953 +-12.72%                  1.667682724 +-13.33%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.418601605 +-14.30%                  8.673532299 +-15.00%
  read fault cycles       266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)            266.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2051.7(+-1.349% 10 samples)           2049.6(+-1.686% 10 samples)

* CONFIG_MEMCG=y non-root_memcg:
                            baseline                              patched
  kbuild                 1m26.120000(+-0.273% 3 samples)       1m25.763333(+-0.127% 3 samples)
  dd write 100 MiB          0.861723964 +-15.25%                  0.818129350 +-14.82%
  dd write 200 MiB          1.669887569 +-13.30%                  1.698645885 +-13.27%
  dd write 1000 MiB         8.383191730 +-14.65%                  8.351742280 +-14.52%
  read fault cycles       265.7(+-0.172% 10 samples)            267.0(+-0.000% 10 samples)
  write fault cycles     2070.6(+-1.512% 10 samples)           2084.4(+-2.148% 10 samples)

As expected anon page faults are not affected by this patch.

tj: Updated to apply on top of the recent cancel_dirty_page() changes.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-06-02 08:33:33 -06:00
Vladimir Davydov
8f4fc071b1 gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT
Not all kmem allocations should be accounted to memcg.  The following
patch gives an example when accounting of a certain type of allocations to
memcg can effectively result in a memory leak.  This patch adds the
__GFP_NOACCOUNT flag which if passed to kmalloc and friends will force the
allocation to go through the root cgroup.  It will be used by the next
patch.

Note, since in case of kmemleak enabled each kmalloc implies yet another
allocation from the kmemleak_object cache, we add __GFP_NOACCOUNT to
gfp_kmemleak_mask.

Alternatively, we could introduce a per kmem cache flag disabling
accounting for all allocations of a particular kind, but (a) we would not
be able to bypass accounting for kmalloc then and (b) a kmem cache with
this flag set could not be merged with a kmem cache without this flag,
which would increase the number of global caches and therefore
fragmentation even if the memory cgroup controller is not used.

Despite its generic name, currently __GFP_NOACCOUNT disables accounting
only for kmem allocations while user page allocations are always charged.
To catch abusing of this flag, a warning is issued on an attempt of
passing it to mem_cgroup_try_charge.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.0.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-05-14 17:55:51 -07:00
Vladimir Davydov
60d3fd32a7 list_lru: introduce per-memcg lists
There are several FS shrinkers, including super_block::s_shrink, that
keep reclaimable objects in the list_lru structure.  Hence to turn them
to memcg-aware shrinkers, it is enough to make list_lru per-memcg.

This patch does the trick.  It adds an array of lru lists to the
list_lru_node structure (per-node part of the list_lru), one for each
kmem-active memcg, and dispatches every item addition or removal to the
list corresponding to the memcg which the item is accounted to.  So now
the list_lru structure is not just per node, but per node and per memcg.

Not all list_lrus need this feature, so this patch also adds a new
method, list_lru_init_memcg, which initializes a list_lru as memcg
aware.  Otherwise (i.e.  if initialized with old list_lru_init), the
list_lru won't have per memcg lists.

Just like per memcg caches arrays, the arrays of per-memcg lists are
indexed by memcg_cache_id, so we must grow them whenever
memcg_nr_cache_ids is increased.  So we introduce a callback,
memcg_update_all_list_lrus, invoked by memcg_alloc_cache_id if the id
space is full.

The locking is implemented in a manner similar to lruvecs, i.e.  we have
one lock per node that protects all lists (both global and per cgroup) on
the node.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
05257a1a3d memcg: add rwsem to synchronize against memcg_caches arrays relocation
We need a stable value of memcg_nr_cache_ids in kmem_cache_create()
(memcg_alloc_cache_params() wants it for root caches), where we only
hold the slab_mutex and no memcg-related locks.  As a result, we have to
update memcg_nr_cache_ids under the slab_mutex, which we can only take
on the slab's side (see memcg_update_array_size).  This looks awkward
and will become even worse when per-memcg list_lru is introduced, which
also wants stable access to memcg_nr_cache_ids.

To get rid of this dependency between the memcg_nr_cache_ids and the
slab_mutex, this patch introduces a special rwsem.  The rwsem is held
for writing during memcg_caches arrays relocation and memcg_nr_cache_ids
updates.  Therefore one can take it for reading to get a stable access
to memcg_caches arrays and/or memcg_nr_cache_ids.

Currently the semaphore is taken for reading only from
kmem_cache_create, right before taking the slab_mutex, so right now
there's no much point in using rwsem instead of mutex.  However, once
list_lru is made per-memcg it will allow list_lru initializations to
proceed concurrently.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
dbcf73e26c memcg: rename some cache id related variables
memcg_limited_groups_array_size, which defines the size of memcg_caches
arrays, sounds rather cumbersome.  Also it doesn't point anyhow that
it's related to kmem/caches stuff.  So let's rename it to
memcg_nr_cache_ids.  It's concise and points us directly to
memcg_cache_id.

Also, rename kmem_limited_groups to memcg_cache_ida.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
cb731d6c62 vmscan: per memory cgroup slab shrinkers
This patch adds SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag.  If a shrinker has this flag
set, it will be called per memory cgroup.  The memory cgroup to scan
objects from is passed in shrink_control->memcg.  If the memory cgroup
is NULL, a memcg aware shrinker is supposed to scan objects from the
global list.  Unaware shrinkers are only called on global pressure with
memcg=NULL.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-12 18:54:09 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
241994ed86 mm: memcontrol: default hierarchy interface for memory
Introduce the basic control files to account, partition, and limit
memory using cgroups in default hierarchy mode.

This interface versioning allows us to address fundamental design
issues in the existing memory cgroup interface, further explained
below.  The old interface will be maintained indefinitely, but a
clearer model and improved workload performance should encourage
existing users to switch over to the new one eventually.

The control files are thus:

  - memory.current shows the current consumption of the cgroup and its
    descendants, in bytes.

  - memory.low configures the lower end of the cgroup's expected
    memory consumption range.  The kernel considers memory below that
    boundary to be a reserve - the minimum that the workload needs in
    order to make forward progress - and generally avoids reclaiming
    it, unless there is an imminent risk of entering an OOM situation.

  - memory.high configures the upper end of the cgroup's expected
    memory consumption range.  A cgroup whose consumption grows beyond
    this threshold is forced into direct reclaim, to work off the
    excess and to throttle new allocations heavily, but is generally
    allowed to continue and the OOM killer is not invoked.

  - memory.max configures the hard maximum amount of memory that the
    cgroup is allowed to consume before the OOM killer is invoked.

  - memory.events shows event counters that indicate how often the
    cgroup was reclaimed while below memory.low, how often it was
    forced to reclaim excess beyond memory.high, how often it hit
    memory.max, and how often it entered OOM due to memory.max.  This
    allows users to identify configuration problems when observing a
    degradation in workload performance.  An overcommitted system will
    have an increased rate of low boundary breaches, whereas increased
    rates of high limit breaches, maximum hits, or even OOM situations
    will indicate internally overcommitted cgroups.

For existing users of memory cgroups, the following deviations from
the current interface are worth pointing out and explaining:

  - The original lower boundary, the soft limit, is defined as a limit
    that is per default unset.  As a result, the set of cgroups that
    global reclaim prefers is opt-in, rather than opt-out.  The costs
    for optimizing these mostly negative lookups are so high that the
    implementation, despite its enormous size, does not even provide
    the basic desirable behavior.  First off, the soft limit has no
    hierarchical meaning.  All configured groups are organized in a
    global rbtree and treated like equal peers, regardless where they
    are located in the hierarchy.  This makes subtree delegation
    impossible.  Second, the soft limit reclaim pass is so aggressive
    that it not just introduces high allocation latencies into the
    system, but also impacts system performance due to overreclaim, to
    the point where the feature becomes self-defeating.

    The memory.low boundary on the other hand is a top-down allocated
    reserve.  A cgroup enjoys reclaim protection when it and all its
    ancestors are below their low boundaries, which makes delegation
    of subtrees possible.  Secondly, new cgroups have no reserve per
    default and in the common case most cgroups are eligible for the
    preferred reclaim pass.  This allows the new low boundary to be
    efficiently implemented with just a minor addition to the generic
    reclaim code, without the need for out-of-band data structures and
    reclaim passes.  Because the generic reclaim code considers all
    cgroups except for the ones running low in the preferred first
    reclaim pass, overreclaim of individual groups is eliminated as
    well, resulting in much better overall workload performance.

  - The original high boundary, the hard limit, is defined as a strict
    limit that can not budge, even if the OOM killer has to be called.
    But this generally goes against the goal of making the most out of
    the available memory.  The memory consumption of workloads varies
    during runtime, and that requires users to overcommit.  But doing
    that with a strict upper limit requires either a fairly accurate
    prediction of the working set size or adding slack to the limit.
    Since working set size estimation is hard and error prone, and
    getting it wrong results in OOM kills, most users tend to err on
    the side of a looser limit and end up wasting precious resources.

    The memory.high boundary on the other hand can be set much more
    conservatively.  When hit, it throttles allocations by forcing
    them into direct reclaim to work off the excess, but it never
    invokes the OOM killer.  As a result, a high boundary that is
    chosen too aggressively will not terminate the processes, but
    instead it will lead to gradual performance degradation.  The user
    can monitor this and make corrections until the minimal memory
    footprint that still gives acceptable performance is found.

    In extreme cases, with many concurrent allocations and a complete
    breakdown of reclaim progress within the group, the high boundary
    can be exceeded.  But even then it's mostly better to satisfy the
    allocation from the slack available in other groups or the rest of
    the system than killing the group.  Otherwise, memory.max is there
    to limit this type of spillover and ultimately contain buggy or
    even malicious applications.

  - The original control file names are unwieldy and inconsistent in
    many different ways.  For example, the upper boundary hit count is
    exported in the memory.failcnt file, but an OOM event count has to
    be manually counted by listening to memory.oom_control events, and
    lower boundary / soft limit events have to be counted by first
    setting a threshold for that value and then counting those events.
    Also, usage and limit files encode their units in the filename.
    That makes the filenames very long, even though this is not
    information that a user needs to be reminded of every time they
    type out those names.

    To address these naming issues, as well as to signal clearly that
    the new interface carries a new configuration model, the naming
    conventions in it necessarily differ from the old interface.

  - The original limit files indicate the state of an unset limit with
    a very high number, and a configured limit can be unset by echoing
    -1 into those files.  But that very high number is implementation
    and architecture dependent and not very descriptive.  And while -1
    can be understood as an underflow into the highest possible value,
    -2 or -10M etc. do not work, so it's not inconsistent.

    memory.low, memory.high, and memory.max will use the string
    "infinity" to indicate and set the highest possible value.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use seq_puts() for basic strings]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
90cbc25088 vmscan: force scan offline memory cgroups
Since commit b2052564e6 ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from
offlined groups") pages charged to a memory cgroup are not reparented when
the cgroup is removed.  Instead, they are supposed to be reclaimed in a
regular way, along with pages accounted to online memory cgroups.

However, an lruvec of an offline memory cgroup will sooner or later get so
small that it will be scanned only at low scan priorities (see
get_scan_count()).  Therefore, if there are enough reclaimable pages in
big lruvecs, pages accounted to offline memory cgroups will never be
scanned at all, wasting memory.

Fix this by unconditionally forcing scanning dead lruvecs from kswapd.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11 17:06:02 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
6de226191d mm: memcontrol: track move_lock state internally
The complexity of memcg page stat synchronization is currently leaking
into the callsites, forcing them to keep track of the move_lock state and
the IRQ flags.  Simplify the API by tracking it in the memcg.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11 17:06:00 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
d5b3cf7139 memcg: zap memcg_slab_caches and memcg_slab_mutex
mem_cgroup->memcg_slab_caches is a list of kmem caches corresponding to
the given cgroup.  Currently, it is only used on css free in order to
destroy all caches corresponding to the memory cgroup being freed.  The
list is protected by memcg_slab_mutex.  The mutex is also used to protect
kmem_cache->memcg_params->memcg_caches arrays and synchronizes
kmem_cache_destroy vs memcg_unregister_all_caches.

However, we can perfectly get on without these two.  To destroy all caches
corresponding to a memory cgroup, we can walk over the global list of kmem
caches, slab_caches, and we can do all the synchronization stuff using the
slab_mutex instead of the memcg_slab_mutex.  This patch therefore gets rid
of the memcg_slab_caches and memcg_slab_mutex.

Apart from this nice cleanup, it also:

 - assures that rcu_barrier() is called once at max when a root cache is
   destroyed or a memory cgroup is freed, no matter how many caches have
   SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU flag set;

 - fixes the race between kmem_cache_destroy and kmem_cache_create that
   exists, because memcg_cleanup_cache_params, which is called from
   kmem_cache_destroy after checking that kmem_cache->refcount=0,
   releases the slab_mutex, which gives kmem_cache_create a chance to
   make an alias to a cache doomed to be destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-10 14:30:34 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
dbf22eb6d8 memcg: zap __memcg_{charge,uncharge}_slab
They are simple wrappers around memcg_{charge,uncharge}_kmem, so let's
zap them and call these functions directly.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-10 14:30:34 -08:00
Vladimir Davydov
8135be5a80 memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_kmem_get_cache()
Suppose task @t that belongs to a memory cgroup @memcg is going to
allocate an object from a kmem cache @c.  The copy of @c corresponding to
@memcg, @mc, is empty.  Then if kmem_cache_alloc races with the memory
cgroup destruction we can access the memory cgroup's copy of the cache
after it was destroyed:

CPU0				CPU1
----				----
[ current=@t
  @mc->memcg_params->nr_pages=0 ]

kmem_cache_alloc(@c):
  call memcg_kmem_get_cache(@c);
  proceed to allocation from @mc:
    alloc a page for @mc:
      ...

				move @t from @memcg
				destroy @memcg:
				  mem_cgroup_css_offline(@memcg):
				    memcg_unregister_all_caches(@memcg):
				      kmem_cache_destroy(@mc)

    add page to @mc

We could fix this issue by taking a reference to a per-memcg cache, but
that would require adding a per-cpu reference counter to per-memcg caches,
which would look cumbersome.

Instead, let's take a reference to a memory cgroup, which already has a
per-cpu reference counter, in the beginning of kmem_cache_alloc to be
dropped in the end, and move per memcg caches destruction from css offline
to css free.  As a side effect, per-memcg caches will be destroyed not one
by one, but all at once when the last page accounted to the memory cgroup
is freed.  This doesn't sound as a high price for code readability though.

Note, this patch does add some overhead to the kmem_cache_alloc hot path,
but it is pretty negligible - it's just a function call plus a per cpu
counter decrement, which is comparable to what we already have in
memcg_kmem_get_cache.  Besides, it's only relevant if there are memory
cgroups with kmem accounting enabled.  I don't think we can find a way to
handle this race w/o it, because alloc_page called from kmem_cache_alloc
may sleep so we can't flush all pending kmallocs w/o reference counting.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:49 -08:00
Zhang Zhen
056b7ccef4 mm/memcontrol.c: remove the unused arg in __memcg_kmem_get_cache()
The gfp was passed in but never used in this function.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:47 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
9edad6ea0f mm: move page->mem_cgroup bad page handling into generic code
Now that the external page_cgroup data structure and its lookup is
gone, let the generic bad_page() check for page->mem_cgroup sanity.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
1306a85aed mm: embed the memcg pointer directly into struct page
Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers.  To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.

There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged.  The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory.  With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space.  Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.

     text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
  8828345 1725264  983040 11536649 b00909  vmlinux.old
  8827425 1725264  966656 11519345 afc571  vmlinux.new

[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:09 -08:00
Michal Hocko
e4bd6a0248 mm, memcg: fix potential undefined behaviour in page stat accounting
Since commit d7365e783e ("mm: memcontrol: fix missed end-writeback
page accounting") mem_cgroup_end_page_stat consumes locked and flags
variables directly rather than via pointers which might trigger C
undefined behavior as those variables are initialized only in the slow
path of mem_cgroup_begin_page_stat.

Although mem_cgroup_end_page_stat handles parameters correctly and
touches them only when they hold a sensible value it is caller which
loads a potentially uninitialized value which then might allow compiler
to do crazy things.

I haven't seen any warning from gcc and it seems that the current
version (4.9) doesn't exploit this type undefined behavior but Sasha has
reported the following:

  UBSan: Undefined behaviour in mm/rmap.c:1084:2
  load of value 255 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
  CPU: 4 PID: 8304 Comm: rngd Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-next-20141029-sasha-00039-g77ed13d-dirty #1427
  Call Trace:
    dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
    ubsan_epilogue (lib/ubsan.c:159)
    __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value (lib/ubsan.c:482)
    page_remove_rmap (mm/rmap.c:1084 mm/rmap.c:1096)
    unmap_page_range (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:27 include/linux/mm.h:463 mm/memory.c:1146 mm/memory.c:1258 mm/memory.c:1279 mm/memory.c:1303)
    unmap_single_vma (mm/memory.c:1348)
    unmap_vmas (mm/memory.c:1377 (discriminator 3))
    exit_mmap (mm/mmap.c:2837)
    mmput (kernel/fork.c:659)
    do_exit (./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:168 kernel/exit.c:462 kernel/exit.c:747)
    do_group_exit (include/linux/sched.h:775 kernel/exit.c:873)
    SyS_exit_group (kernel/exit.c:901)
    tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:529)

Fix this by using pointer parameters for both locked and flags and be
more robust for future compiler changes even though the current code is
implemented correctly.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:08 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
2314b42db6 mm: memcontrol: drop bogus RCU locking from mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree()
None of the mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() callers actually require it to
take the RCU lock, either because they hold it themselves or they have css
references.  Remove it.

To make the API change clear, rename the leftover helper to
mem_cgroup_is_descendant() to match cgroup_is_descendant().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:08 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
413918bb61 mm: memcontrol: pull the NULL check from __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree()
The NULL in mm_match_cgroup() comes from a possibly exiting mm->owner.  It
makes a lot more sense to check where it's looked up, rather than check
for it in __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() where it's unexpected.

No other callsite passes NULL to __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:08 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
3e32cb2e0a mm: memcontrol: lockless page counters
Memory is internally accounted in bytes, using spinlock-protected 64-bit
counters, even though the smallest accounting delta is a page.  The
counter interface is also convoluted and does too many things.

Introduce a new lockless word-sized page counter API, then change all
memory accounting over to it.  The translation from and to bytes then only
happens when interfacing with userspace.

The removed locking overhead is noticable when scaling beyond the per-cpu
charge caches - on a 4-socket machine with 144-threads, the following test
shows the performance differences of 288 memcgs concurrently running a
page fault benchmark:

vanilla:

   18631648.500498      task-clock (msec)         #  140.643 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.33% )
         1,380,638      context-switches          #    0.074 K/sec                    ( +-  0.75% )
            24,390      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +-  8.44% )
     1,843,305,768      page-faults               #    0.099 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
50,134,994,088,218      cycles                    #    2.691 GHz                      ( +-  0.33% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 8,049,712,224,651      instructions              #    0.16  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.04% )
 1,586,970,584,979      branches                  #   85.176 M/sec                    ( +-  0.05% )
     1,724,989,949      branch-misses             #    0.11% of all branches          ( +-  0.48% )

     132.474343877 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.21% )

lockless:

   12195979.037525      task-clock (msec)         #  133.480 CPUs utilized            ( +-  0.18% )
           832,850      context-switches          #    0.068 K/sec                    ( +-  0.54% )
            15,624      cpu-migrations            #    0.001 K/sec                    ( +- 10.17% )
     1,843,304,774      page-faults               #    0.151 M/sec                    ( +-  0.00% )
32,811,216,801,141      cycles                    #    2.690 GHz                      ( +-  0.18% )
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-frontend
   <not supported>      stalled-cycles-backend
 9,999,265,091,727      instructions              #    0.30  insns per cycle          ( +-  0.10% )
 2,076,759,325,203      branches                  #  170.282 M/sec                    ( +-  0.12% )
     1,656,917,214      branch-misses             #    0.08% of all branches          ( +-  0.55% )

      91.369330729 seconds time elapsed                                          ( +-  0.45% )

On top of improved scalability, this also gets rid of the icky long long
types in the very heart of memcg, which is great for 32 bit and also makes
the code a lot more readable.

Notable differences between the old and new API:

- res_counter_charge() and res_counter_charge_nofail() become
  page_counter_try_charge() and page_counter_charge() resp. to match
  the more common kernel naming scheme of try_do()/do()

- res_counter_uncharge_until() is only ever used to cancel a local
  counter and never to uncharge bigger segments of a hierarchy, so
  it's replaced by the simpler page_counter_cancel()

- res_counter_set_limit() is replaced by page_counter_limit(), which
  expects its callers to serialize against themselves

- res_counter_memparse_write_strategy() is replaced by
  page_counter_limit(), which rounds down to the nearest page size -
  rather than up.  This is more reasonable for explicitely requested
  hard upper limits.

- to keep charging light-weight, page_counter_try_charge() charges
  speculatively, only to roll back if the result exceeds the limit.
  Because of this, a failing bigger charge can temporarily lock out
  smaller charges that would otherwise succeed.  The error is bounded
  to the difference between the smallest and the biggest possible
  charge size, so for memcg, this means that a failing THP charge can
  send base page charges into reclaim upto 2MB (4MB) before the limit
  would have been reached.  This should be acceptable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE and memparse]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add includes for WARN_ON_ONCE, memparse, strncmp, and PAGE_SIZE]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-10 17:41:04 -08:00