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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2013-04-30 02:07:17 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-04-30 02:54:32 +0400
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memcg: relax memcg iter caching
Now that the per-node-zone-priority iterator caches memory cgroups rather than their css ids we have to be careful and remove them from the iterator when they are on the way out otherwise they might live for unbounded amount of time even though their group is already gone (until the global/targeted reclaim triggers the zone under priority to find out the group is dead and let it to find the final rest). We can fix this issue by relaxing rules for the last_visited memcg. Instead of taking a reference to the css before it is stored into iter->last_visited we can just store its pointer and track the number of removed groups from each memcg's subhierarchy. This number would be stored into iterator everytime when a memcg is cached. If the iter count doesn't match the curent walker root's one we will start from the root again. The group counter is incremented upwards the hierarchy every time a group is removed. The iter_lock can be dropped because racing iterators cannot leak the reference anymore as the reference count is not elevated for last_visited when it is cached. Locking rules got a bit complicated by this change though. The iterator primarily relies on rcu read lock which makes sure that once we see a valid last_visited pointer then it will be valid for the whole RCU walk. smp_rmb makes sure that dead_count is read before last_visited and last_dead_count while smp_wmb makes sure that last_visited is updated before last_dead_count so the up-to-date last_dead_count cannot point to an outdated last_visited. css_tryget then makes sure that the last_visited is still alive in case the iteration races with the cached group removal (css is invalidated before mem_cgroup_css_offline increments dead_count). In short: mem_cgroup_iter rcu_read_lock() dead_count = atomic_read(parent->dead_count) smp_rmb() if (dead_count != iter->last_dead_count) last_visited POSSIBLY INVALID -> last_visited = NULL if (!css_tryget(iter->last_visited)) last_visited DEAD -> last_visited = NULL next = find_next(last_visited) css_tryget(next) css_put(last_visited) // css would be invalidated and parent->dead_count // incremented if this was the last reference iter->last_visited = next smp_wmb() iter->last_dead_count = dead_count rcu_read_unlock() cgroup_rmdir cgroup_destroy_locked atomic_add(CSS_DEACT_BIAS, &css->refcnt) // subsequent css_tryget fail mem_cgroup_css_offline mem_cgroup_invalidate_reclaim_iterators while(parent = parent_mem_cgroup) atomic_inc(parent->dead_count) css_put(css) // last reference held by cgroup core Spotted by Ying Han. Original idea from Johannes Weiner. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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