From d13d144309d2e5a3e6ad978b16c1d0226ddc9231 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:07:56 -0800 Subject: memcg: handle swap caches SwapCache support for memory resource controller (memcg) Before mem+swap controller, memcg itself should handle SwapCache in proper way. This is cut-out from it. In current memcg, SwapCache is just leaked and the user can create tons of SwapCache. This is a leak of account and should be handled. SwapCache accounting is done as following. charge (anon) - charged when it's mapped. (because of readahead, charge at add_to_swap_cache() is not sane) uncharge (anon) - uncharged when it's dropped from swapcache and fully unmapped. means it's not uncharged at unmap. Note: delete from swap cache at swap-in is done after rmap information is established. charge (shmem) - charged at swap-in. this prevents charge at add_to_page_cache(). uncharge (shmem) - uncharged when it's dropped from swapcache and not on shmem's radix-tree. at migration, check against 'old page' is modified to handle shmem. Comparing to the old version discussed (and caused troubles), we have advantages of - PCG_USED bit. - simple migrating handling. So, situation is much easier than several months ago, maybe. [hugh@veritas.com: memcg: handle swap caches build fix] Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 54253b7a8db2..9fe2d0eabe05 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). +Exception: When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to +be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the +caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. + + 2.4 Reclaim Each cgroup maintains a per cgroup LRU that consists of an active -- cgit v1.2.3