The buffer_head can consume a significant amount of system memory and
is directly related to the amount of page cache. In our production
environment we have observed that a lot of machines are spending a
significant amount of memory as buffer_head and can not be left as
system memory overhead.
Charging buffer_head is not as simple as adding __GFP_ACCOUNT to the
allocation. The buffer_heads can be allocated in a memcg different from
the memcg of the page for which buffer_heads are being allocated. One
concrete example is memory reclaim. The reclaim can trigger I/O of pages
of any memcg on the system. So, the right way to charge buffer_head is
to extract the memcg from the page for which buffer_heads are being
allocated and then use targeted memcg charging API.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog since v1:
- simple code cleanups
fs/buffer.c | 15 ++++++++++++++-
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 +++++++
mm/memcontrol.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 8194e3049fc5..47682cc935fb 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <linux/mpage.h>
#include <linux/bit_spinlock.h>
#include <linux/pagevec.h>
+#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
#include <trace/events/block.h>
static int fsync_buffers_list(spinlock_t *lock, struct list_head *list);
@@ -815,10 +816,17 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;
long offset;
+ struct mem_cgroup *old_memcg = NULL, *memcg;
if (retry)
gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
+ memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_page(page);
+ if (memcg) {
+ gfp |= __GFP_ACCOUNT;
+ old_memcg = memalloc_use_memcg(memcg);
+ }
+
head = NULL;
offset = PAGE_SIZE;
while ((offset -= size) >= 0) {
@@ -835,6 +843,11 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
/* Link the buffer to its page */
set_bh_page(bh, page, offset);
}
+out:
+ if (memcg) {
+ memalloc_unuse_memcg(old_memcg);
+ mem_cgroup_put(memcg);
+ }
return head;
/*
* In case anything failed, we just free everything we got.
@@ -848,7 +861,7 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
} while (head);
}
- return NULL;
+ goto out;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_page_buffers);
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 6c857be8a9b7..d53609978eb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
+struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page);
+
static inline
struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_css(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css){
return css ? container_of(css, struct mem_cgroup, css) : NULL;
@@ -864,6 +866,11 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
return NULL;
}
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ return NULL;
+}
+
static inline void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
}
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 6b1a8f8e0a82..13d30b37935f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -713,6 +713,28 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_mm);
+/**
+ * get_mem_cgroup_from_page: Obtain a reference on given page's memcg.
+ * @page: page from which memcg should be extracted.
+ *
+ * Obtain a reference on page->memcg and returns it if successful. Otherwise
+ * NULL is returned.
+ */
+struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_page(struct page *page)
+{
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page->mem_cgroup;
+
+ if (mem_cgroup_disabled() || !memcg)
+ return NULL;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!css_tryget_online(&memcg->css))
+ memcg = NULL;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return memcg;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_page);
+
/**
* First try to obtain reference on current->active_memcg. On failure, try to
* obtain reference on current->mm->memcg. On further failure root_mem_cgroup
--
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