On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 04:42:29PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote: > Having large amounts of unmovable or unreclaimable memory in a system > can lead to system instability due to increasing the likelihood of > encountering out-of-memory conditions. Therefore it is desirable to > limit the amount of memory users can lock or pin. > > From userspace such limits can be enforced by setting > RLIMIT_MEMLOCK. However there is no standard method that drivers and > other in-kernel users can use to check and enforce this limit. > > This has lead to a large number of inconsistencies in how limits are > enforced. For example some drivers will use mm->locked_mm while others > will use mm->pinned_mm or user->locked_mm. It is therefore possible to > have up to three times RLIMIT_MEMLOCKED pinned. > > Having pinned memory limited per-task also makes it easy for users to > exceed the limit. For example drivers that pin memory with > pin_user_pages() it tends to remain pinned after fork. To deal with > this and other issues this series introduces a cgroup for tracking and > limiting the number of pages pinned or locked by tasks in the group. > > However the existing behaviour with regards to the rlimit needs to be > maintained. Therefore the lesser of the two limits is > enforced. Furthermore having CAP_IPC_LOCK usually bypasses the rlimit, > but this bypass is not allowed for the cgroup. > > The first part of this series converts existing drivers which > open-code the use of locked_mm/pinned_mm over to a common interface > which manages the refcounts of the associated task/mm/user > structs. This ensures accounting of pages is consistent and makes it > easier to add charging of the cgroup. > > The second part of the series adds the cgroup and converts core mm > code such as mlock over to charging the cgroup before finally > introducing some selftests. > > As I don't have access to systems with all the various devices I > haven't been able to test all driver changes. Any help there would be > appreciated. I'm excited by this series, thanks for making it. The pin accounting has been a long standing problem and cgroups will really help! Jason
