The patch titled memcg: limit change shrink usage has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: limit change shrink usage From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Shrinking memory usage at limit change. Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 3 - mm/memcontrol.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/controllers/memory.txt~memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage Documentation/controllers/memory.txt --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt~memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage +++ a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -242,8 +242,7 @@ rmdir() if there are no tasks. 1. Add support for accounting huge pages (as a separate controller) 2. Make per-cgroup scanner reclaim not-shared pages first 3. Teach controller to account for shared-pages -4. Start reclamation when the limit is lowered -5. Start reclamation in the background when the limit is +4. Start reclamation in the background when the limit is not yet hit but the usage is getting closer Summary diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -812,6 +812,30 @@ int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct mm_st return 0; } +int mem_cgroup_resize_limit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long long val) +{ + + int retry_count = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + int progress; + int ret = 0; + + while (res_counter_set_limit(&memcg->res, val)) { + if (signal_pending(current)) { + ret = -EINTR; + break; + } + if (!retry_count) { + ret = -EBUSY; + break; + } + progress = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!progress) + retry_count--; + } + return ret; +} + + /* * This routine traverse page_cgroup in given list and drop them all. * *And* this routine doesn't reclaim page itself, just removes page_cgroup. @@ -896,13 +920,29 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup return res_counter_read_u64(&mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->res, cft->private); } - +/* + * The user of this function is... + * RES_LIMIT. + */ static int mem_cgroup_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, const char *buffer) { - return res_counter_write(&mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont)->res, - cft->private, buffer, - res_counter_memparse_write_strategy); + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont); + unsigned long long val; + int ret; + + switch (cft->private) { + case RES_LIMIT: + /* This function does all necessary parse...reuse it */ + ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val); + if (!ret) + ret = mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, val); + break; + default: + ret = -EINVAL; /* should be BUG() ? */ + break; + } + return ret; } static int mem_cgroup_reset(struct cgroup *cont, unsigned int event) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly-xen.patch memory-hotplugallocate-usemap-on-the-section-with-pgdat-take-4.patch memory-hotplug-dont-calculate-vm_total_pages-twice-when-rebuilding-zonelists-in-online_pages.patch memory-hotplug-add-sysfs-removable-attribute-for-hotplug-memory-remove.patch mark-res_counter_charge_locked-with-__must_check.patch cgroup-files-clean-up-whitespace-in-struct-cftype.patch cgroup-files-add-write_string-cgroup-control-file-method.patch cgroup-files-move-the-release_agent-file-to-use-typed-handlers.patch cgroups-misc-cleanups-to-write_string-patchset.patch cgroup-files-move-notify_on_release-file-to-separate-write-handler.patch cgroup-files-turn-attach_task_by_pid-directly-into-a-cgroup-write-handler.patch cgroup-files-remove-cpuset_common_file_write.patch cgroup-files-convert-devcgroup_access_write-into-a-cgroup-write_string-handler.patch cgroup-files-convert-res_counter_write-to-be-a-cgroups-write_string-handler.patch cgroup_clone-use-pid-of-newly-created-task-for-new-cgroup.patch cgroup_clone-use-pid-of-newly-created-task-for-new-cgroup-fix.patch cgroup_clone-use-pid-of-newly-created-task-for-new-cgroup-checkpatch-fixes.patch memcg-make-global-var-read_mostly.patch memcg-avoid-unnecessary-initialization.patch memcg-better-migration-handling.patch memcg-remove-refcnt-from-page_cgroup.patch memcg-remove-refcnt-from-page_cgroup-fix.patch memcg-remove-refcnt-from-page_cgroup-fix-2.patch memcg-remove-refcnt-from-page_cgroup-fix-memcg-fix-mem_cgroup_end_migration-race.patch memcg-remove-refcnt-from-page_cgroup-memcg-fix-shmem_unuse_inode-charging.patch memcg-helper-function-for-relcaim-from-shmem.patch memcg-helper-function-for-relcaim-from-shmem-memcg-shmem_getpage-release-page-sooner.patch memcg-helper-function-for-relcaim-from-shmem-memcg-mem_cgroup_shrink_usage-css_put.patch memcg-add-hints-for-branch.patch memcg-remove-a-redundant-check.patch memcg-clean-up-checking-of-the-disabled-flag.patch memcg-clean-up-checking-of-the-disabled-flag-memcg-further-checking-of-disabled-flag.patch res_counter-limit-change-support-ebusy.patch memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage.patch memcg-limit-change-shrink-usage-checkpatch-fixes.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-documentation.patch memrlimit-setup-the-memrlimit-controller.patch memrlimit-setup-the-memrlimit-controller-memrlimit-correct-mremap-and-move_vma-accounting.patch memrlimit-cgroup-mm-owner-callback-changes-to-add-task-info.patch memrlimit-cgroup-mm-owner-callback-changes-to-add-task-info-memrlimit-fix-mmap_sem-deadlock.patch memrlimit-cgroup-mm-owner-callback-changes-to-add-task-info-memrlimit-fix-sleep-inside-sleeplock-in-mm_update_next_owner.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control.patch memrlimit-add-memrlimit-controller-accounting-and-control-memrlimit-improve-fork-and-error-handling.patch memrlimit-improve-error-handling.patch memrlimit-improve-error-handling-update.patch memrlimit-handle-attach_task-failure-add-can_attach-callback.patch memrlimit-handle-attach_task-failure-add-can_attach-callback-update.patch mm-speculative-page-references-fix-migration_entry_wait-for-speculative-page-cache.patch define-page_file_cache-function-fix-splitlru-shmem_getpage-setpageswapbacked-sooner.patch vmscan-split-lru-lists-into-anon-file-sets-splitlru-memcg-swapbacked-pages-active.patch vmscan-second-chance-replacement-for-anonymous-pages-fix.patch unevictable-lru-infrastructure-putback_lru_page-unevictable-page-handling-rework.patch mlock-mlocked-pages-are-unevictable-fix-truncate-race-and-sevaral-comments.patch fix-double-unlock_page-in-2626-rc5-mm3-kernel-bug-at-mm-filemapc-575.patch restore-patch-failure-of-vmstat-unevictable-and-mlocked-pages-vm-eventspatch.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html