This version is rebased on mm-unstable. Hopefully, Andrew can get this series into mm-unstable which will help to determine whether there is a problem or degradation. I am also doing some benchmark tests in parallel. Since the following patchsets applied. All the kernel memory are charged with the new APIs of obj_cgroup. commit f2fe7b09a52b ("mm: memcg/slab: charge individual slab objects instead of pages") commit b4e0b68fbd9d ("mm: memcontrol: use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages") But user memory allocations (LRU pages) pinning memcgs for a long time - it exists at a larger scale and is causing recurring problems in the real world: page cache doesn't get reclaimed for a long time, or is used by the second, third, fourth, ... instance of the same job that was restarted into a new cgroup every time. Unreclaimable dying cgroups pile up, waste memory, and make page reclaim very inefficient. We can convert LRU pages and most other raw memcg pins to the objcg direction to fix this problem, and then the LRU pages will not pin the memcgs. This patchset aims to make the LRU pages to drop the reference to memory cgroup by using the APIs of obj_cgroup. Finally, we can see that the number of the dying cgroups will not increase if we run the following test script. ```bash #!/bin/bash dd if=/dev/zero of=temp bs=4096 count=1 cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory for i in {0..2000} do mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test$i echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test$i/cgroup.procs cat temp >> log echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/cgroup.procs rmdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test$i done cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory rm -f temp log ``` v5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220530074919.46352-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220524060551.80037-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220216115132.52602-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210916134748.67712-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210814052519.86679-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ RFC v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210527093336.14895-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ RFC v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210421070059.69361-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210409122959.82264-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210330101531.82752-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v6: - Collect Acked-by and Reviewed-by from Roman and Michal Koutný. Thanks. - Rebase to mm-unstable. v5: - Lots of improvements from Johannes, Roman and Waiman. - Fix lockdep warning reported by kernel test robot. - Add two new patches to do code cleanup. - Collect Acked-by and Reviewed-by from Johannes and Roman. - I didn't replace local_irq_disable/enable() to local_lock/unlock_irq() since local_lock/unlock_irq() takes an parameter, it needs more thinking to transform it to local_lock. It could be an improvement in the future. v4: - Resend and rebased on v5.18. v3: - Removed the Acked-by tags from Roman since this version is based on the folio relevant. v2: - Rename obj_cgroup_release_kmem() to obj_cgroup_release_bytes() and the dependencies of CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM (suggested by Roman, Thanks). - Rebase to linux 5.15-rc1. - Add a new pacth to cleanup mem_cgroup_kmem_disabled(). v1: - Drop RFC tag. - Rebase to linux next-20210811. RFC v4: - Collect Acked-by from Roman. - Rebase to linux next-20210525. - Rename obj_cgroup_release_uncharge() to obj_cgroup_release_kmem(). - Change the patch 1 title to "prepare objcg API for non-kmem usage". - Convert reparent_ops_head to an array in patch 8. Thanks for Roman's review and suggestions. RFC v3: - Drop the code cleanup and simplification patches. Gather those patches into a separate series[1]. - Rework patch #1 suggested by Johannes. RFC v2: - Collect Acked-by tags by Johannes. Thanks. - Rework lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock() suggested by Johannes. Thanks. - Fix move_pages_to_lru(). Muchun Song (11): mm: memcontrol: remove dead code and comments mm: rename unlock_page_lruvec{_irq, _irqrestore} to lruvec_unlock{_irq, _irqrestore} mm: memcontrol: prepare objcg API for non-kmem usage mm: memcontrol: make lruvec lock safe when LRU pages are reparented mm: vmscan: rework move_pages_to_lru() mm: thp: make split queue lock safe when LRU pages are reparented mm: memcontrol: make all the callers of {folio,page}_memcg() safe mm: memcontrol: introduce memcg_reparent_ops mm: memcontrol: use obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages mm: lru: add VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO to lru maintenance function mm: lru: use lruvec lock to serialize memcg changes fs/buffer.c | 4 +- fs/fs-writeback.c | 23 +- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 218 +++++++++------ include/linux/mm_inline.h | 6 + include/trace/events/writeback.h | 5 + mm/compaction.c | 39 ++- mm/huge_memory.c | 153 ++++++++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 584 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ mm/migrate.c | 4 + mm/mlock.c | 2 +- mm/page_io.c | 5 +- mm/swap.c | 49 ++-- mm/vmscan.c | 66 ++--- 13 files changed, 776 insertions(+), 382 deletions(-) base-commit: 882be1ed6b1b5073fc88552181b99bd2b9c0031f -- 2.11.0