Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/5] hugetlb_cgroup: Add accounting for shared mappings

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On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 4:54 PM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/8/19 4:13 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:
> > For shared mappings, the pointer to the hugetlb_cgroup to uncharge lives
> > in the resv_map entries, in file_region->reservation_counter.
> >
> > When a file_region entry is added to the resv_map via region_add, we
> > also charge the appropriate hugetlb_cgroup and put the pointer to that
> > in file_region->reservation_counter. This is slightly delicate since we
> > need to not modify the resv_map until we know that charging the
> > reservation has succeeded. If charging doesn't succeed, we report the
> > error to the caller, so that the kernel fails the reservation.
>
> I wish we did not need to modify these region_() routines as they are
> already difficult to understand.  However, I see no other way with the
> desired semantics.
>
> > On region_del, which is when the hugetlb memory is unreserved, we delete
> > the file_region entry in the resv_map, but also uncharge the
> > file_region->reservation_counter.
> >
> > ---
> >  mm/hugetlb.c | 208 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> >  1 file changed, 170 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > index 235996aef6618..d76e3137110ab 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> > @@ -242,8 +242,72 @@ struct file_region {
> >       struct list_head link;
> >       long from;
> >       long to;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB
> > +     /*
> > +      * On shared mappings, each reserved region appears as a struct
> > +      * file_region in resv_map. These fields hold the info needed to
> > +      * uncharge each reservation.
> > +      */
> > +     struct page_counter *reservation_counter;
> > +     unsigned long pages_per_hpage;
> > +#endif
> >  };
> >
> > +/* Must be called with resv->lock held. Calling this with dry_run == true will
> > + * count the number of pages added but will not modify the linked list.
> > + */
> > +static long consume_regions_we_overlap_with(struct file_region *rg,
> > +             struct list_head *head, long f, long *t,
> > +             struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cg,
> > +             struct hstate *h,
> > +             bool dry_run)
> > +{
> > +     long add = 0;
> > +     struct file_region *trg = NULL, *nrg = NULL;
> > +
> > +     /* Consume any regions we now overlap with. */
> > +     nrg = rg;
> > +     list_for_each_entry_safe(rg, trg, rg->link.prev, link) {
> > +             if (&rg->link == head)
> > +                     break;
> > +             if (rg->from > *t)
> > +                     break;
> > +
> > +             /* If this area reaches higher then extend our area to
> > +              * include it completely.  If this is not the first area
> > +              * which we intend to reuse, free it.
> > +              */
> > +             if (rg->to > *t)
> > +                     *t = rg->to;
> > +             if (rg != nrg) {
> > +                     /* Decrement return value by the deleted range.
> > +                      * Another range will span this area so that by
> > +                      * end of routine add will be >= zero
> > +                      */
> > +                     add -= (rg->to - rg->from);
> > +                     if (!dry_run) {
> > +                             list_del(&rg->link);
> > +                             kfree(rg);
>
> Is it possible that the region struct we are deleting pointed to
> a reservation_counter?  Perhaps even for another cgroup?
> Just concerned with the way regions are coalesced that we may be
> deleting counters.
>

Yep, that needs to be handled I think. Thanks for catching!


> --
> Mike Kravetz




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