list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_{count,walk}

Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker
support.  That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any
chance to recover.  What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which
would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup.  This is what
this patch set is intended to do.

Basically, it does two things.  First, it introduces the notion of
per-memcg slab shrinker.  A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per
cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE.  Then it will be
passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg.  For
such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under
the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory
cgroup.

Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg.  It's
done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to
tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru.  Then the
list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists
basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to.  This way to make FS
shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use
memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does.

As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the
pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit.  Handling
memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and
it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified
hierarchy.

This patch (of 9):

NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute
objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists.  Whenever
such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node,
it issues commands like this:

        count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
        freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func,
                                   isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan);

where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it
from vmscan.

To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by
shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which
consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control
structure.

This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru
when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend
the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make
list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/list_lru.h b/include/linux/list_lru.h
index f3434533fbf8..f500a2e39b13 100644
--- a/include/linux/list_lru.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_lru.h
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/nodemask.h>
+#include <linux/shrinker.h>
 
 /* list_lru_walk_cb has to always return one of those */
 enum lru_status {
@@ -81,6 +82,13 @@ bool list_lru_del(struct list_lru *lru, struct list_head *item);
  * Callers that want such a guarantee need to provide an outer lock.
  */
 unsigned long list_lru_count_node(struct list_lru *lru, int nid);
+
+static inline unsigned long list_lru_shrink_count(struct list_lru *lru,
+						  struct shrink_control *sc)
+{
+	return list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
+}
+
 static inline unsigned long list_lru_count(struct list_lru *lru)
 {
 	long count = 0;
@@ -120,6 +128,14 @@ unsigned long list_lru_walk_node(struct list_lru *lru, int nid,
 				 unsigned long *nr_to_walk);
 
 static inline unsigned long
+list_lru_shrink_walk(struct list_lru *lru, struct shrink_control *sc,
+		     list_lru_walk_cb isolate, void *cb_arg)
+{
+	return list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate, cb_arg,
+				  &sc->nr_to_scan);
+}
+
+static inline unsigned long
 list_lru_walk(struct list_lru *lru, list_lru_walk_cb isolate,
 	      void *cb_arg, unsigned long nr_to_walk)
 {