Please also CC vfs people
On Sat 06-07-13 01:30:09, Sha Zhengju wrote:
> From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch adds memcg routines to count dirty pages, which allows memory controller
> to maintain an accurate view of the amount of its dirty memory.
>
> After Kame's commit 89c06bd5(memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting), we can
> use 'struct page' flag to test page state instead of per page_cgroup flag. But memcg
> has a feature to move a page from a cgroup to another one and may have race between
> "move" and "page stat accounting". So in order to avoid the race we have designed a
> bigger lock:
Well, bigger lock is little bit an overstatement ;). It is full no-op for
!CONFIG_MEMCG, almost no-op if memcg is disabled (but compiled in), rcu
read lock in the most cases (no task is moving) and spin_lock_irqsave on
top in the slow path.
It would be good to mention this in the changelog for those who are not
familiar.
>
> mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
> modify page information -->(a)
> mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() -->(b)
Hmm, mem_cgroup_update_page_stat doesn't do any checking that we use a
proper locking. Which would be hard but we could at least test for
rcu_read_lock_held() because RCU is held if !mem_cgroup_disabled().
This would be a nice preparatory patch. What do you think?
> mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat()
> It requires both (a) and (b)(dirty pages accounting) to be pretected in
> mem_cgroup_{begin/end}_update_page_stat().
>
> Server places should be added accounting:
Server?
> incrementing (3):
> __set_page_dirty_buffers
> __set_page_dirty_nobuffers
> mark_buffer_dirty
> decrementing (5):
> clear_page_dirty_for_io
> cancel_dirty_page
> delete_from_page_cache
> __delete_from_page_cache
> replace_page_cache_page
>
> The lock order between memcg lock and mapping lock is:
> --> memcg->move_lock
> --> mapping->private_lock
> --> mapping->tree_lock
>
> Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/buffer.c | 9 +++++++++
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 1 +
> mm/filemap.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> mm/memcontrol.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> mm/page-writeback.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
> mm/truncate.c | 6 ++++++
> 6 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> index 695eb14..7c537f4 100644
> --- a/fs/buffer.c
> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> @@ -694,10 +694,13 @@ int __set_page_dirty_buffers(struct page *page)
> {
> int newly_dirty;
> struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
> + bool locked;
> + unsigned long flags;
>
> if (unlikely(!mapping))
> return !TestSetPageDirty(page);
I guess it would be worth mentioning why we do not care about pages
without mapping.
> + mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(page, &locked, &flags);
> spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
> if (page_has_buffers(page)) {
> struct buffer_head *head = page_buffers(page);
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 4b51ac1..5642de6 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
[...]
> @@ -144,6 +149,7 @@ void __delete_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
This needs a comment that it has to be called from within
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat context. Btw. it seems that you
are missing invalidate_complete_page2 and __remove_mapping
> * having removed the page entirely.
> */
> if (PageDirty(page) && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
> + mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(page, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
> dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
> dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
> }
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index f9acf49..1d31851 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ static const char * const mem_cgroup_stat_names[] = {
> "rss_huge",
> "mapped_file",
> "swap",
> + "dirty",
This doesn't match mem_cgroup_stat_index ordering.
> };
>
> enum mem_cgroup_events_index {
[...]
> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
> index 4514ad7..3900e62 100644
> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
> @@ -1982,6 +1982,11 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
>
> /*
> * Helper function for set_page_dirty family.
> + *
> + * The caller must hold mem_cgroup_begin/end_update_page_stat() lock
> + * while modifying struct page state and accounting dirty pages.
I think "while calling this function" would be sufficient.
> + * See __set_page_dirty_{nobuffers,buffers} for example.
> + *
> * NOTE: This relies on being atomic wrt interrupts.
> */
> void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
[...]
Thanks
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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