mm: charge active memcg when no mm is set

set_active_memcg() worked for kernel allocations but was silently ignored
for user pages.

This patch establishes a precedence order for who gets charged:

1. If there is a memcg associated with the page already, that memcg is
   charged. This happens during swapin.

2. If an explicit mm is passed, mm->memcg is charged. This happens
   during page faults, which can be triggered in remote VMs (eg gup).

3. Otherwise consult the current process context. If there is an
   active_memcg, use that. Otherwise, current->mm->memcg.

Previously, if a NULL mm was passed to mem_cgroup_charge (case 3) it would
always charge the root cgroup.  Now it looks up the active_memcg first
(falling back to charging the root cgroup if not set).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210610173944.1203706-3-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f7a552eb3e9d..8f3244e59b30 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -897,13 +897,24 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_from_task);
 
+static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *active_memcg(void)
+{
+	if (in_interrupt())
+		return this_cpu_read(int_active_memcg);
+	else
+		return current->active_memcg;
+}
+
 /**
  * get_mem_cgroup_from_mm: Obtain a reference on given mm_struct's memcg.
  * @mm: mm from which memcg should be extracted. It can be NULL.
  *
- * Obtain a reference on mm->memcg and returns it if successful. Otherwise
- * root_mem_cgroup is returned. However if mem_cgroup is disabled, NULL is
- * returned.
+ * Obtain a reference on mm->memcg and returns it if successful. If mm
+ * is NULL, then the memcg is chosen as follows:
+ * 1) The active memcg, if set.
+ * 2) current->mm->memcg, if available
+ * 3) root memcg
+ * If mem_cgroup is disabled, NULL is returned.
  */
 struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
@@ -921,8 +932,17 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	 * counting is disabled on the root level in the
 	 * cgroup core. See CSS_NO_REF.
 	 */
-	if (unlikely(!mm))
-		return root_mem_cgroup;
+	if (unlikely(!mm)) {
+		memcg = active_memcg();
+		if (unlikely(memcg)) {
+			/* remote memcg must hold a ref */
+			css_get(&memcg->css);
+			return memcg;
+		}
+		mm = current->mm;
+		if (unlikely(!mm))
+			return root_mem_cgroup;
+	}
 
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	do {
@@ -935,14 +955,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_mm);
 
-static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *active_memcg(void)
-{
-	if (in_interrupt())
-		return this_cpu_read(int_active_memcg);
-	else
-		return current->active_memcg;
-}
-
 static __always_inline bool memcg_kmem_bypass(void)
 {
 	/* Allow remote memcg charging from any context. */
@@ -6711,7 +6723,8 @@ out:
  * @gfp_mask: reclaim mode
  *
  * Try to charge @page to the memcg that @mm belongs to, reclaiming
- * pages according to @gfp_mask if necessary.
+ * pages according to @gfp_mask if necessary. if @mm is NULL, try to
+ * charge to the active memcg.
  *
  * Do not use this for pages allocated for swapin.
  *