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Subject[PATCH 4/6 v4] memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting
From ad2905362ef58a44d96a325193ab384739418050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 11:49:59 +0900
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting.

Now, page-stat-per-memcg is recorded into per page_cgroup flag by
duplicating page's status into the flag. The reason is that memcg
has a feature to move a page from a group to another group and we
have race between "move" and "page stat accounting",

Under current logic, assume CPU-A and CPU-B. CPU-A does "move"
and CPU-B does "page stat accounting".

When CPU-A goes 1st,

CPU-A CPU-B
update "struct page" info.
move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg)
see flags
copy page stat to new group
overwrite pc->mem_cgroup.
move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg)
move_lock_mem_cgroup(mem)
set pc->flags
update page stat accounting
move_unlock_mem_cgroup(mem)

stat accounting is guarded by move_lock_mem_cgroup() and "move"
logic (CPU-A) doesn't see changes in "struct page" information.

But it's costly to have the same information both in 'struct page' and
'struct page_cgroup'. And, there is a potential problem.

For example, assume we have PG_dirty accounting in memcg.
PG_..is a flag for struct page.
PCG_ is a flag for struct page_cgroup.
(This is just an example. The same problem can be found in any
kind of page stat accounting.)

CPU-A CPU-B
TestSet PG_dirty
(delay) TestClear PG_dirty_
if (TestClear(PCG_dirty))
memcg->nr_dirty--
if (TestSet(PCG_dirty))
memcg->nr_dirty++

Here, memcg->nr_dirty = +1, this is wrong.
This race was reported by Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>.
Now, only FILE_MAPPED is supported but fortunately, it's serialized by
page table lock and this is not real bug, _now_,

If this potential problem is caused by having duplicated information in
struct page and struct page_cgroup, we may be able to fix this by using
original 'struct page' information.
But we'll have a problem in "move account"

Assume we use only PG_dirty.

CPU-A CPU-B
TestSet PG_dirty
(delay) move_lock_mem_cgroup()
if (PageDirty(page))
new_memcg->nr_dirty++
pc->mem_cgroup = new_memcg;
move_unlock_mem_cgroup()
move_lock_mem_cgroup()
memcg = pc->mem_cgroup
new_memcg->nr_dirty++

accounting information may be double-counted. This was original
reason to have PCG_xxx flags but it seems PCG_xxx has another problem.

I think we need a bigger lock as

move_lock_mem_cgroup(page)
TestSetPageDirty(page)
update page stats (without any checks)
move_unlock_mem_cgroup(page)

This fixes both of problems and we don't have to duplicate page flag
into page_cgroup. Please note: move_lock_mem_cgroup() is held
only when there are possibility of "account move" under the system.
So, in most path, status update will go without atomic locks.

This patch introduce mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() and
mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat() both should be called at modifying
'struct page' information if memcg takes care of it. as

mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
modify page information
mem_cgroup_update_page_stat()
=> never check any 'struct page' info, just update counters.
mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat().

This patch is slow because we need to call begin_update_page_stat()/
end_update_page_stat() regardless of accounted will be changed or not.
A following patch adds an easy optimization and reduces the cost.

Changes since v3
- fixed typos

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/memcontrol.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
mm/rmap.c | 15 ++++++++++-
3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index bf4e1f4..3f3ef33 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -141,6 +141,31 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
return false;
}

+void __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags);
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+ return;
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ *lock = false;
+ return __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(page, lock, flags);
+}
+
+void __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page, bool *lock,
+ unsigned long *flags);
+static inline void mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
+ return;
+ if (*lock)
+ __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(page, lock, flags);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx,
int val);
@@ -356,6 +381,16 @@ mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
{
}

+static inline void mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+}
+
static inline void mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx)
{
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ecf8856..30afea5 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1877,32 +1877,54 @@ bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask)
* If there is, we take a lock.
*/

+void __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ struct page_cgroup *pc;
+
+ pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
+again:
+ memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
+ if (unlikely(!memcg || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)))
+ return;
+ if (!mem_cgroup_stealed(memcg))
+ return;
+
+ move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags);
+ if (memcg != pc->mem_cgroup || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
+ move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags);
+ goto again;
+ }
+ *lock = true;
+}
+
+void __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+ bool *lock, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
+
+ /*
+ * It's guaranteed that pc->mem_cgroup never changes while
+ * lock is held
+ */
+ move_unlock_mem_cgroup(pc->mem_cgroup, flags);
+}
+
+
void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx, int val)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
- bool need_unlock = false;
unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);

if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return;
-again:
- rcu_read_lock();
+
memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
if (unlikely(!memcg || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)))
- goto out;
- /* pc->mem_cgroup is unstable ? */
- if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_stealed(memcg))) {
- /* take a lock against to access pc->mem_cgroup */
- move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
- if (memcg != pc->mem_cgroup || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
- move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
- rcu_read_unlock();
- goto again;
- }
- need_unlock = true;
- }
+ return;

switch (idx) {
case MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED:
@@ -1917,11 +1939,6 @@ again:
}

this_cpu_add(memcg->stat->count[idx], val);
-
-out:
- if (unlikely(need_unlock))
- move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
- rcu_read_unlock();
}

/*
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index aa547d4..dd193db 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1150,10 +1150,15 @@ void page_add_new_anon_rmap(struct page *page,
*/
void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)
{
+ bool locked;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(page, &locked, &flags);
if (atomic_inc_and_test(&page->_mapcount)) {
__inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_MAPPED);
mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(page, MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED);
}
+ mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(page, &locked, &flags);
}

/**
@@ -1164,9 +1169,13 @@ void page_add_file_rmap(struct page *page)
*/
void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
{
+ bool locked;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(page, &locked, &flags);
/* page still mapped by someone else? */
if (!atomic_add_negative(-1, &page->_mapcount))
- return;
+ goto out;

/*
* Now that the last pte has gone, s390 must transfer dirty
@@ -1183,7 +1192,7 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
* and not charged by memcg for now.
*/
if (unlikely(PageHuge(page)))
- return;
+ goto out;
if (PageAnon(page)) {
mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(page);
if (!PageTransHuge(page))
@@ -1204,6 +1213,8 @@ void page_remove_rmap(struct page *page)
* Leaving it set also helps swapoff to reinstate ptes
* faster for those pages still in swapcache.
*/
+out:
+ mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(page, &locked, &flags);
}

/*
--
1.7.4.1



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