linux.git/mm/memcontrol.c, branch v4.9

mm: memcontrol: do not recurse in direct reclaim

2016-10-28T01:43:43+00:00

On 4.0, we saw a stack corruption from a page fault entering direct
memory cgroup reclaim, calling into btrfs_releasepage(), which then
tried to allocate an extent and recursed back into a kmem charge ad
nauseam:

  [...]
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  memcg_charge_kmem+0x40/0x80
  new_slab+0x2d9/0x5a0
  __slab_alloc+0x2fd/0x44f
  kmem_cache_alloc+0x193/0x1e0
  alloc_extent_state+0x21/0xc0
  __clear_extent_bit+0x2b5/0x400
  try_release_extent_mapping+0x1a3/0x220
  __btrfs_releasepage+0x31/0x70
  btrfs_releasepage+0x2c/0x30
  try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
  shrink_page_list+0x6da/0x7a0
  shrink_inactive_list+0x1e5/0x510
  shrink_lruvec+0x605/0x7f0
  shrink_zone+0xee/0x320
  do_try_to_free_pages+0x174/0x440
  try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages+0xa7/0x130
  try_charge+0x17b/0x830
  mem_cgroup_try_charge+0x65/0x1c0
  handle_mm_fault+0x117f/0x1510
  __do_page_fault+0x177/0x420
  do_page_fault+0xc/0x10
  page_fault+0x22/0x30

On later kernels, kmem charging is opt-in rather than opt-out, and that
particular kmem allocation in btrfs_releasepage() is no longer being
charged and won't recurse and overrun the stack anymore.

But it's not impossible for an accounted allocation to happen from the
memcg direct reclaim context, and we needed to reproduce this crash many
times before we even got a useful stack trace out of it.

Like other direct reclaimers, mark tasks in memcg reclaim PF_MEMALLOC to
avoid recursing into any other form of direct reclaim.  Then let
recursive charges from PF_MEMALLOC contexts bypass the cgroup limit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161025141050.GA13019@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: consolidate cgroup socket tracking

2016-10-08T01:46:29+00:00

The cgroup core and the memory controller need to track socket ownership
for different purposes, but the tracking sites being entirely different
is kind of ugly.

Be a better citizen and rename the memory controller callbacks to match
the cgroup core callbacks, then move them to the same place.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, swap: use offset of swap entry as key of swap cache

2016-10-08T01:46:28+00:00

This patch is to improve the performance of swap cache operations when
the type of the swap device is not 0.  Originally, the whole swap entry
value is used as the key of the swap cache, even though there is one
radix tree for each swap device.  If the type of the swap device is not
0, the height of the radix tree of the swap cache will be increased
unnecessary, especially on 64bit architecture.  For example, for a 1GB
swap device on the x86_64 architecture, the height of the radix tree of
the swap cache is 11.  But if the offset of the swap entry is used as
the key of the swap cache, the height of the radix tree of the swap
cache is 4.  The increased height causes unnecessary radix tree
descending and increased cache footprint.

This patch reduces the height of the radix tree of the swap cache via
using the offset of the swap entry instead of the whole swap entry value
as the key of the swap cache.  In 32 processes sequential swap out test
case on a Xeon E5 v3 system with RAM disk as swap, the lock contention
for the spinlock of the swap cache is reduced from 20.15% to 12.19%,
when the type of the swap device is 1.

Use the whole swap entry as key,

  perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list: 10.37,
  perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_node_memcg: 9.78,

Use the swap offset as key,

  perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irq.__add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap_cache.add_to_swap.shrink_page_list: 6.25,
  perf-profile.calltrace.cycles-pp._raw_spin_lock_irqsave.__remove_mapping.shrink_page_list.shrink_inactive_list.shrink_node_memcg: 5.94,

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473270649-27229-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Aaron Lu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memcontrol.c: make the walk_page_range() limit obvious

2016-10-08T01:46:28+00:00

mem_cgroup_count_precharge() and mem_cgroup_move_charge() both call
walk_page_range() on the range 0 to ~0UL, neither provide a pte_hole
callback, which causes the current implementation to skip non-vma
regions.  This is all fine but follow up changes would like to make
walk_page_range more generic so it is better to be explicit about which
range to traverse so let's use highest_vm_end to explicitly traverse
only user mmaped memory.

[mhocko@kernel.org: rewrote changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472655897-22532-1-git-send-email-james.morse@arm.com
Signed-off-by: James Morse 
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: add sanity checks for memcg->id.ref on get/put

2016-10-08T01:46:26+00:00

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c5ddb1c171dbdfc3262252769d6138a29b35b70.1470219853.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: oom: deduplicate victim selection code for memcg and global oom

2016-10-08T01:46:26+00:00

When selecting an oom victim, we use the same heuristic for both memory
cgroup and global oom.  The only difference is the scope of tasks to
select the victim from.  So we could just export an iterator over all
memcg tasks and keep all oom related logic in oom_kill.c, but instead we
duplicate pieces of it in memcontrol.c reusing some initially private
functions of oom_kill.c in order to not duplicate all of it.  That looks
ugly and error prone, because any modification of select_bad_process
should also be propagated to mem_cgroup_out_of_memory.

Let's rework this as follows: keep all oom heuristic related code private
to oom_kill.c and make oom_kill.c use exported memcg functions when it's
really necessary (like in case of iterating over memcg tasks).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470056933-7505-1-git-send-email-vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: make per-cpu charge cache IRQ-safe for socket accounting

2016-09-19T22:36:17+00:00

During cgroup2 rollout into production, we started encountering css
refcount underflows and css access crashes in the memory controller.
Splitting the heavily shared css reference counter into logical users
narrowed the imbalance down to the cgroup2 socket memory accounting.

The problem turns out to be the per-cpu charge cache.  Cgroup1 had a
separate socket counter, but the new cgroup2 socket accounting goes
through the common charge path that uses a shared per-cpu cache for all
memory that is being tracked.  Those caches are safe against scheduling
preemption, but not against interrupts - such as the newly added packet
receive path.  When cache draining is interrupted by network RX taking
pages out of the cache, the resuming drain operation will put references
of in-use pages, thus causing the imbalance.

Disable IRQs during all per-cpu charge cache operations.

Fixes: f7e1cb6ec51b ("mm: memcontrol: account socket memory in unified hierarchy memory controller")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160914194846.11153-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Cc: 	[4.5+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: avoid unused function warning

2016-08-27T00:39:35+00:00

A bugfix in v4.8-rc2 introduced a harmless warning when
CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is disabled but CONFIG_MEMCG is enabled:

  mm/memcontrol.c:4085:27: error: 'mem_cgroup_id_get_online' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
   static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_id_get_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)

This moves the function inside of the #ifdef block that hides the
calling function, to avoid the warning.

Fixes: 1f47b61fb407 ("mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160824113733.2776701-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: fix memcg id ref counter on swap charge move

2016-08-11T23:58:13+00:00

Since commit 73f576c04b94 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure
after many small jobs") swap entries do not pin memcg->css.refcnt
directly.  Instead, they pin memcg->id.ref.  So we should adjust the
reference counters accordingly when moving swap charges between cgroups.

Fixes: 73f576c04b941 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9ce297c64954a42dc90b543bc76106c4a94f07e8.1470219853.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: 	[3.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup

2016-08-11T23:58:13+00:00

An offline memory cgroup might have anonymous memory or shmem left
charged to it and no swap.  Since only swap entries pin the id of an
offline cgroup, such a cgroup will have no id and so an attempt to
swapout its anon/shmem will not store memory cgroup info in the swap
cgroup map.  As a result, memcg->swap or memcg->memsw will never get
uncharged from it and any of its ascendants.

Fix this by always charging swapout to the first ancestor cgroup that
hasn't released its id yet.

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: add comment to mem_cgroup_swapout]
[vdavydov@virtuozzo.com: use WARN_ON_ONCE() in mem_cgroup_id_get_online()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803123445.GJ13263@esperanza
Fixes: 73f576c04b941 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5336daa5c9a32e776067773d9da655d2dc126491.1470219853.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: 	[3.19+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds