mm: memcontrol: rewrite charge API

These patches rework memcg charge lifetime to integrate more naturally
with the lifetime of user pages.  This drastically simplifies the code and
reduces charging and uncharging overhead.  The most expensive part of
charging and uncharging is the page_cgroup bit spinlock, which is removed
entirely after this series.

Here are the top-10 profile entries of a stress test that reads a 128G
sparse file on a freshly booted box, without even a dedicated cgroup (i.e.
 executing in the root memcg).  Before:

    15.36%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.31%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.48%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     4.23%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.38%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.32%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge
     2.18%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common
     1.92%          kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.86%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.62%              cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn

After:

    15.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] copy_user_generic_string
    13.48%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] memset
    11.42%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] do_mpage_readpage
     3.98%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] get_page_from_freelist
     2.46%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_page
     2.13%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] shrink_page_list
     1.88%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __radix_tree_lookup
     1.67%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __pagevec_lru_add_fn
     1.39%       kswapd0  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] free_pcppages_bulk
     1.30%           cat  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] kfree

As you can see, the memcg footprint has shrunk quite a bit.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  37970    9892     400   48262    bc86 mm/memcontrol.o.old
  35239    9892     400   45531    b1db mm/memcontrol.o

This patch (of 4):

The memcg charge API charges pages before they are rmapped - i.e.  have an
actual "type" - and so every callsite needs its own set of charge and
uncharge functions to know what type is being operated on.  Worse,
uncharge has to happen from a context that is still type-specific, rather
than at the end of the page's lifetime with exclusive access, and so
requires a lot of synchronization.

Rewrite the charge API to provide a generic set of try_charge(),
commit_charge() and cancel_charge() transaction operations, much like
what's currently done for swap-in:

  mem_cgroup_try_charge() attempts to reserve a charge, reclaiming
  pages from the memcg if necessary.

  mem_cgroup_commit_charge() commits the page to the charge once it
  has a valid page->mapping and PageAnon() reliably tells the type.

  mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() aborts the transaction.

This reduces the charge API and enables subsequent patches to
drastically simplify uncharging.

As pages need to be committed after rmap is established but before they
are added to the LRU, page_add_new_anon_rmap() must stop doing LRU
additions again.  Revive lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable().

[hughd@google.com: fix shmem_unuse]
[hughd@google.com: Add comments on the private use of -EAGAIN]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index eb65d29516ca..1a9a096858e0 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -54,28 +54,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie {
 };
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
-/*
- * All "charge" functions with gfp_mask should use GFP_KERNEL or
- * (gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK). In current implementatin, memcg doesn't
- * alloc memory but reclaims memory from all available zones. So, "where I want
- * memory from" bits of gfp_mask has no meaning. So any bits of that field is
- * available but adding a rule is better. charge functions' gfp_mask should
- * be set to GFP_KERNEL or gfp_mask & GFP_RECLAIM_MASK for avoiding ambiguous
- * codes.
- * (Of course, if memcg does memory allocation in future, GFP_KERNEL is sane.)
- */
-
-extern int mem_cgroup_charge_anon(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
-				gfp_t gfp_mask);
-/* for swap handling */
-extern int mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
-		struct page *page, gfp_t mask, struct mem_cgroup **memcgp);
-extern void mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
-					struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
-extern void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge_swapin(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
-
-extern int mem_cgroup_charge_file(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
-					gfp_t gfp_mask);
+int mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
+			  gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mem_cgroup **memcgp);
+void mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+			      bool lrucare);
+void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
 
 struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec(struct zone *, struct mem_cgroup *);
 struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *, struct zone *);
@@ -233,30 +216,22 @@ void mem_cgroup_print_bad_page(struct page *page);
 #else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
 struct mem_cgroup;
 
-static inline int mem_cgroup_charge_anon(struct page *page,
-					struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static inline int mem_cgroup_charge_file(struct page *page,
-					struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t gfp_mask)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static inline int mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
-		struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask, struct mem_cgroup **memcgp)
+static inline int mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
+					gfp_t gfp_mask,
+					struct mem_cgroup **memcgp)
 {
+	*memcgp = NULL;
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static inline void mem_cgroup_commit_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
-					  struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_commit_charge(struct page *page,
+					    struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+					    bool lrucare)
 {
 }
 
-static inline void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge_swapin(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+static inline void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(struct page *page,
+					    struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 {
 }