Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller

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On 09/22/2011 12:17 AM, Balbir Singh wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Glauber Costa<glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

Hi people,

Any insights on this series?
Kame, is it inline with your expectations ?

Thank you all

On 09/18/2011 09:56 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:

This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component
of the Memory Controller.

As of today, I am only laying down the following files:

  * memory.independent_kmem_limit
  * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored)
  * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero)

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa<glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Paul Menage<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Greg Thelen<gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |   30 +++++++++-
  init/Kconfig                     |   11 ++++
  mm/memcontrol.c                  |  115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
  3 files changed, 148 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 6f3c598..6f1954a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ Features:
   - oom-killer disable knob and oom-notifier
   - Root cgroup has no limit controls.

- Kernel memory and Hugepages are not under control yet. We just manage
- pages on LRU. To add more controls, we have to take care of performance.
+ Hugepages is not under control yet. We just manage pages on LRU. To add more
+ controls, we have to take care of performance. Kernel memory support is work
+ in progress, and the current version provides basically functionality.

  Brief summary of control files.

@@ -56,8 +57,11 @@ Brief summary of control files.
                                 (See 5.5 for details)
   memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes   # show current res_counter usage for memory+Swap
                                 (See 5.5 for details)
+ memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes     # show current res_counter usage for kmem only.
+                                (See 2.7 for details)
   memory.limit_in_bytes                 # set/show limit of memory usage
   memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes   # set/show limit of memory+Swap usage
+ memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes     # if allowed, set/show limit of kernel memory
   memory.failcnt                        # show the number of memory usage hits limits
   memory.memsw.failcnt          # show the number of memory+Swap hits limits
   memory.max_usage_in_bytes     # show max memory usage recorded
@@ -72,6 +76,9 @@ Brief summary of control files.
   memory.oom_control            # set/show oom controls.
   memory.numa_stat              # show the number of memory usage per numa node

+ memory.independent_kmem_limit  # select whether or not kernel memory limits are
+                                  independent of user limits
+
  1. History

  The memory controller has a long history. A request for comments for the memory
@@ -255,6 +262,25 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered.
    per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by
    zone->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own.

+2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM)
+
+ With the Kernel memory extension, the Memory Controller is able to limit
+the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally
+different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it
+possible to DoS the system by consuming too much of this precious resource.
+Kernel memory limits are not imposed for the root cgroup.
+
+Memory limits as specified by the standard Memory Controller may or may not
+take kernel memory into consideration. This is achieved through the file
+memory.independent_kmem_limit. A Value different than 0 will allow for kernel
+memory to be controlled separately.
+
+When kernel memory limits are not independent, the limit values set in
+memory.kmem files are ignored.
+
+Currently no soft limit is implemented for kernel memory. It is future work
+to trigger slab reclaim when those limits are reached.
+

Ying Han was also looking into this (cc'ing her)

  3. User Interface

  0. Configuration
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index d627783..49e5839 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -689,6 +689,17 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED
          For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should
          select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it
          then swapaccount=0 does the trick).
+config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+       bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting"
+       depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
+       default y
+       help
+         The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit
+         the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are
+         fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard
+         Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of
+         the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
+         will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.

  config CGROUP_PERF
        bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ebd1e86..d32e931 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ static int really_do_swap_account __initdata = 0;
  #define do_swap_account               (0)
  #endif

-
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+int do_kmem_account __read_mostly = 1;
+#else
+#define do_kmem_account                0
+#endif
  /*
   * Statistics for memory cgroup.
   */
@@ -270,6 +274,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
         */
        struct res_counter memsw;
        /*
+        * the counter to account for kmem usage.
+        */
+       struct res_counter kmem;
+       /*
         * Per cgroup active and inactive list, similar to the
         * per zone LRU lists.
         */
@@ -321,6 +329,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
         */
        unsigned long   move_charge_at_immigrate;
        /*
+        * Should kernel memory limits be stabilished independently
+        * from user memory ?
+        */
+       int             kmem_independent;
+       /*
         * percpu counter.
         */
        struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu *stat;
@@ -388,9 +401,14 @@ enum charge_type {
  };

  /* for encoding cft->private value on file */
-#define _MEM                   (0)
-#define _MEMSWAP               (1)
-#define _OOM_TYPE              (2)
+
+enum mem_type {
+       _MEM = 0,
+       _MEMSWAP,
+       _OOM_TYPE,
+       _KMEM,
+};
+
  #define MEMFILE_PRIVATE(x, val)       (((x)<<    16) | (val))
  #define MEMFILE_TYPE(val)     (((val)>>    16)&    0xffff)
  #define MEMFILE_ATTR(val)     ((val)&    0xffff)
@@ -3943,10 +3961,15 @@ static inline u64 mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *mem, bool swap)
        u64 val;

        if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(mem)) {
+               val = 0;
+               if (!mem->kmem_independent)
+                       val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->kmem, RES_USAGE);
                if (!swap)
-                       return res_counter_read_u64(&mem->res, RES_USAGE);
+                       val += res_counter_read_u64(&mem->res, RES_USAGE);
                else
-                       return res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, RES_USAGE);
+                       val += res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, RES_USAGE);
+
+               return val;
        }

        val = mem_cgroup_recursive_stat(mem, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE);
@@ -3979,6 +4002,10 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
                else
                        val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, name);
                break;
+       case _KMEM:
+               val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->kmem, name);
+               break;
+
        default:
                BUG();
                break;
@@ -4756,6 +4783,21 @@ static int mem_cgroup_reset_vmscan_stat(struct cgroup *cgrp,
        return 0;
  }

+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+static u64 kmem_limit_independent_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
+{
+       return mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->kmem_independent;
+}
+
+static int kmem_limit_independent_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
+                                       u64 val)
+{
+       cgroup_lock();
+       mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->kmem_independent = !!val;
+       cgroup_unlock();
+       return 0;
+}

I know we have a lot of pending xxx_from_cont() and struct cgroup
*cont, can we move it to memcg notation to be more consistent with our
usage. There is a patch to convert old usage

+#endif

  static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[] = {
        {
@@ -4877,6 +4919,47 @@ static int register_memsw_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
  }
  #endif

+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+static struct cftype kmem_cgroup_files[] = {
+       {
+               .name = "independent_kmem_limit",
+               .read_u64 = kmem_limit_independent_read,
+               .write_u64 = kmem_limit_independent_write,
+       },
+       {
+               .name = "kmem.usage_in_bytes",
+               .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_USAGE),
+               .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read,
+       },
+       {
+               .name = "kmem.limit_in_bytes",
+               .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_LIMIT),
+               .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read,
+       },
+};
+
+static int register_kmem_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
+{
+       struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont);
+       int ret = 0;
+
+       if (!do_kmem_account)
+               return 0;
+
+       if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(mem))
+               ret = cgroup_add_files(cont, ss, kmem_cgroup_files,
+                                       ARRAY_SIZE(kmem_cgroup_files));
+       return ret;
+};
+
+#else
+static int register_kmem_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
  static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int node)
  {
        struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn;
@@ -5075,6 +5158,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
        if (parent&&    parent->use_hierarchy) {
                res_counter_init(&mem->res,&parent->res);
                res_counter_init(&mem->memsw,&parent->memsw);
+               res_counter_init(&mem->kmem,&parent->kmem);
                /*
                 * We increment refcnt of the parent to ensure that we can
                 * safely access it on res_counter_charge/uncharge.
@@ -5085,6 +5169,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
        } else {
                res_counter_init(&mem->res, NULL);
                res_counter_init(&mem->memsw, NULL);
+               res_counter_init(&mem->kmem, NULL);
        }
        mem->last_scanned_child = 0;
        mem->last_scanned_node = MAX_NUMNODES;
@@ -5129,6 +5214,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,

        if (!ret)
                ret = register_memsw_files(cont, ss);
+
+       if (!ret)
+               ret = register_kmem_files(cont, ss);
+
        return ret;
  }

@@ -5665,3 +5754,17 @@ static int __init enable_swap_account(char *s)
  __setup("swapaccount=", enable_swap_account);

  #endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
+static int __init disable_kmem_account(char *s)
+{
+       /* consider enabled if no parameter or 1 is given */
+       if (!strcmp(s, "1"))
+               do_kmem_account = 1;
+       else if (!strcmp(s, "0"))
+               do_kmem_account = 0;
+       return 1;
+}
+__setup("kmemaccount=", disable_kmem_account);
+
+#endif

The infrastructure looks OK, we need better integration with
statistics for kmem usage.

Balbir Singh
Hello Balbir,

Thank you for your comments.
I agree here. With this patch, however, I am only trying to lay down the foundations needed for the rest of the patches, that touch tcp memory pressure conditions.


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