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SubjectRe: [RFC][2/3] Account and control virtual address space allocations (v2)
Balbir Singh wrote:
> Changelog v2
> ------------
> Change the accounting to what is already present in the kernel. Split
> the address space accounting into mem_cgroup_charge_as and
> mem_cgroup_uncharge_as. At the time of VM expansion, call
> mem_cgroup_cannot_expand_as to check if the new allocation will push
> us over the limit
>
> This patch implements accounting and control of virtual address space.
> Accounting is done when the virtual address space of any task/mm_struct
> belonging to the cgroup is incremented or decremented. This patch
> fails the expansion if the cgroup goes over its limit.
>
> TODOs
>
> 1. Only when CONFIG_MMU is enabled, is the virtual address space control
> enabled. Should we do this for nommu cases as well? My suspicion is
> that we don't have to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>
> arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 2 +
> arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 7 +++
> fs/exec.c | 2 +
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 26 +++++++++++++
> include/linux/res_counter.h | 19 ++++++++--
> init/Kconfig | 2 -
> kernel/fork.c | 17 +++++++--
> mm/memcontrol.c | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> mm/mmap.c | 11 +++++
> mm/mremap.c | 2 +
> 10 files changed, 163 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-virtual-address-space-accounting-and-control mm/memcontrol.c
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc5/mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-virtual-address-space-accounting-and-control 2008-03-26 16:27:59.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-balbir/mm/memcontrol.c 2008-03-27 00:18:16.000000000 +0530
> @@ -526,6 +526,76 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(u
> return nr_taken;
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_AS
> +/*
> + * Charge the address space usage for cgroup. This routine is most
> + * likely to be called from places that expand the total_vm of a mm_struct.
> + */
> +void mem_cgroup_charge_as(struct mm_struct *mm, long nr_pages)
> +{
> + struct mem_cgroup *mem;
> +
> + if (mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled)
> + return;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + mem = rcu_dereference(mm->mem_cgroup);
> + css_get(&mem->css);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + res_counter_charge(&mem->as_res, (nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
> + css_put(&mem->css);

Why don't you check whether the counter is charged? This is
bad for two reasons:
1. you allow for some growth above the limit (e.g. in expand_stack)
2. you will undercharge it in the future when uncharging the
vme, whose charge was failed and thus unaccounted.


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