user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/memcontrol.h, branch v4.7

mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs

2016-07-23T01:25:54Z

The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives the cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears. At the same time it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically store IDs in the wild. Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain frequent but small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page cache, we quickly run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs. Creating a new cgroup fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, or even no user-visible cgroups in existence. Although pinning CSSs past cgroup removal is common, there are only two instances that actually need an ID after a cgroup is deleted: cache shadow entries and swapout records. Cache shadow entries reference the ID weakly and can deal with the CSS having disappeared when it's looked up later. They pose no hurdle. Swap-out records do need to pin the css to hierarchically attribute swapins after the cgroup has been deleted; though the only pages that remain swapped out after offlining are tmpfs/shmem pages. And those references are under the user's control, so they are manageable. This patch introduces a private 16-bit memcg ID and switches swap and cache shadow entries over to using that. This ID can then be recycled after offlining when the CSS remains pinned only by objects that don't specifically need it. This script demonstrates the problem by faulting one cache page in a new cgroup and deleting it again: set -e mkdir -p pages for x in `seq 128000`; do [ $((x % 1000)) -eq 0 ] && echo $x mkdir /cgroup/foo echo $$ >/cgroup/foo/cgroup.procs echo trex >pages/$x echo $$ >/cgroup/cgroup.procs rmdir /cgroup/foo done When run on an unpatched kernel, we eventually run out of possible IDs even though there are no visible cgroups: [root@ham ~]# ./cssidstress.sh [...] 65000 mkdir: cannot create directory '/cgroup/foo': No space left on device After this patch, the IDs get released upon cgroup destruction and the cache and css objects get released once memory reclaim kicks in. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: init the IDR] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160621154601.GA22431@cmpxchg.org Fixes: b2052564e66d ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from offlined groups") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617162516.GD19084@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: John Garcia Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Nikolay Borisov Cc: [3.19+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: vmscan: reduce size of inactive file list

2016-05-21T00:58:30Z

The inactive file list should still be large enough to contain readahead windows and freshly written file data, but it no longer is the only source for detecting multiple accesses to file pages. The workingset refault measurement code causes recently evicted file pages that get accessed again after a shorter interval to be promoted directly to the active list. With that mechanism in place, we can afford to (on a larger system) dedicate more memory to the active file list, so we can actually cache more of the frequently used file pages in memory, and not have them pushed out by streaming writes, once-used streaming file reads, etc. This can help things like database workloads, where only half the page cache can currently be used to cache the database working set. This patch automatically increases that fraction on larger systems, using the same ratio that has already been used for anonymous memory. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: cgroup-awareness] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Andres Freund Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: update_lru_size do the __mod_zone_page_state

2016-05-20T02:12:14Z

Konstantin Khlebnikov pointed out (nearly four years ago, when lumpy reclaim was removed) that lru_size can be updated by -nr_taken once per call to isolate_lru_pages(), instead of page by page. Update it inside isolate_lru_pages(), or at its two callsites? I chose to update it at the callsites, rearranging and grouping the updates by nr_taken and nr_scanned together in both. With one exception, mem_cgroup_update_lru_size(,lru,) is then used where __mod_zone_page_state(,NR_LRU_BASE+lru,) is used; and we shall be adding some more calls in a future commit. Make the code a little smaller and simpler by incorporating stat update in lru_size update. The exception was move_active_pages_to_lru(), which aggregated the pgmoved stat update separately from the individual lru_size updates; but I still think this a simplification worth making. However, the __mod_zone_page_state is not peculiar to mem_cgroups: so better use the name update_lru_size, calls mem_cgroup_update_lru_size when CONFIG_MEMCG. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Ning Qu Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: workingset: make shadow node shrinker memcg aware

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

Workingset code was recently made memcg aware, but shadow node shrinker is still global. As a result, one small cgroup can consume all memory available for shadow nodes, possibly hurting other cgroups by reclaiming their shadow nodes, even though reclaim distances stored in its shadow nodes have no effect. To avoid this, we need to make shadow node shrinker memcg aware. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: zap memcg_kmem_online helper

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

As kmem accounting is now either enabled for all cgroups or disabled system-wide, there's no point in having memcg_kmem_online() helper - instead one can use memcg_kmem_enabled() and mem_cgroup_online(), as shrink_slab() now does. There are only two places left where this helper is used - __memcg_kmem_charge() and memcg_create_kmem_cache(). The former can only be called if memcg_kmem_enabled() returned true. Since the cgroup it operates on is online, mem_cgroup_is_root() check will be enough. memcg_create_kmem_cache() can't use mem_cgroup_online() helper instead of memcg_kmem_online(), because it relies on the fact that in memcg_offline_kmem() memcg->kmem_state is changed before memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches() is called, but there we can just open-code the check. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: report kernel stack usage in cgroup2 memory.stat

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

Show how much memory is allocated to kernel stacks. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: report slab usage in cgroup2 memory.stat

2016-03-17T22:09:34Z

Show how much memory is used for storing reclaimable and unreclaimable in-kernel data structures allocated from slab caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove unnecessary uses of lock_page_memcg()

2016-03-15T23:55:16Z

There are several users that nest lock_page_memcg() inside lock_page() to prevent page->mem_cgroup from changing. But the page lock prevents pages from moving between cgroups, so that is unnecessary overhead. Remove lock_page_memcg() in contexts with locked contexts and fix the debug code in the page stat functions to be okay with the page lock. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: simplify lock_page_memcg()

2016-03-15T23:55:16Z

Now that migration doesn't clear page->mem_cgroup of live pages anymore, it's safe to make lock_page_memcg() and the memcg stat functions take pages, and spare the callers from memcg objects. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Suggested-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migrate: do not touch page->mem_cgroup of live pages

2016-03-15T23:55:16Z

Changing a page's memcg association complicates dealing with the page, so we want to limit this as much as possible. Page migration e.g. does not have to do that. Just like page cache replacement, it can forcibly charge a replacement page, and then uncharge the old page when it gets freed. Temporarily overcharging the cgroup by a single page is not an issue in practice, and charging is so cheap nowadays that this is much preferrable to the headache of messing with live pages. The only place that still changes the page->mem_cgroup binding of live pages is when pages move along with a task to another cgroup. But that path isolates the page from the LRU, takes the page lock, and the move lock (lock_page_memcg()). That means page->mem_cgroup is always stable in callers that have the page isolated from the LRU or locked. Lighter unlocked paths, like writeback accounting, can use lock_page_memcg(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: fix lockdep splat] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds