linux.git/mm/memcontrol.c, branch v5.5 Linux kernel source tree mm: memcg/slab: fix percpu slab vmstats flushing 2020-01-14T02:19:02+00:00 Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com 2020-01-14T00:29:16+00:00 4a87e2a25dc27131c3cce5e94421622193305638 Currently slab percpu vmstats are flushed twice: during the memcg offlining and just before freeing the memcg structure. Each time percpu counters are summed, added to the atomic counterparts and propagated up by the cgroup tree. The second flushing is required due to how recursive vmstats are implemented: counters are batched in percpu variables on a local level, and once a percpu value is crossing some predefined threshold, it spills over to atomic values on the local and each ascendant levels. It means that without flushing some numbers cached in percpu variables will be dropped on floor each time a cgroup is destroyed. And with uptime the error on upper levels might become noticeable. The first flushing aims to make counters on ancestor levels more precise. Dying cgroups may resume in the dying state for a long time. After kmem_cache reparenting which is performed during the offlining slab counters of the dying cgroup don't have any chances to be updated, because any slab operations will be performed on the parent level. It means that the inaccuracy caused by percpu batching will not decrease up to the final destruction of the cgroup. By the original idea flushing slab counters during the offlining should minimize the visible inaccuracy of slab counters on the parent level. The problem is that percpu counters are not zeroed after the first flushing. So every cached percpu value is summed twice. It creates a small error (up to 32 pages per cpu, but usually less) which accumulates on parent cgroup level. After creating and destroying of thousands of child cgroups, slab counter on parent level can be way off the real value. For now, let's just stop flushing slab counters on memcg offlining. It can't be done correctly without scheduling a work on each cpu: reading and zeroing it during css offlining can race with an asynchronous update, which doesn't expect values to be changed underneath. With this change, slab counters on parent level will become eventually consistent. Once all dying children are gone, values are correct. And if not, the error is capped by 32 * NR_CPUS pages per dying cgroup. It's not perfect, as slab are reparented, so any updates after the reparenting will happen on the parent level. It means that if a slab page was allocated, a counter on child level was bumped, then the page was reparented and freed, the annihilation of positive and negative counter values will not happen until the child cgroup is released. It makes slab counters different from others, and it might want us to implement flushing in a correct form again. But it's also a question of performance: scheduling a work on each cpu isn't free, and it's an open question if the benefit of having more accurate counters is worth it. We might also consider flushing all counters on offlining, not only slab counters. So let's fix the main problem now: make the slab counters eventually consistent, so at least the error won't grow with uptime (or more precisely the number of created and destroyed cgroups). And think about the accuracy of counters separately. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191220042728.1045881-1-guro@fb.com Fixes: bee07b33db78 ("mm: memcontrol: flush percpu slab vmstats on kmem offlining") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Currently slab percpu vmstats are flushed twice: during the memcg
offlining and just before freeing the memcg structure.  Each time percpu
counters are summed, added to the atomic counterparts and propagated up
by the cgroup tree.

The second flushing is required due to how recursive vmstats are
implemented: counters are batched in percpu variables on a local level,
and once a percpu value is crossing some predefined threshold, it spills
over to atomic values on the local and each ascendant levels.  It means
that without flushing some numbers cached in percpu variables will be
dropped on floor each time a cgroup is destroyed.  And with uptime the
error on upper levels might become noticeable.

The first flushing aims to make counters on ancestor levels more
precise.  Dying cgroups may resume in the dying state for a long time.
After kmem_cache reparenting which is performed during the offlining
slab counters of the dying cgroup don't have any chances to be updated,
because any slab operations will be performed on the parent level.  It
means that the inaccuracy caused by percpu batching will not decrease up
to the final destruction of the cgroup.  By the original idea flushing
slab counters during the offlining should minimize the visible
inaccuracy of slab counters on the parent level.

The problem is that percpu counters are not zeroed after the first
flushing.  So every cached percpu value is summed twice.  It creates a
small error (up to 32 pages per cpu, but usually less) which accumulates
on parent cgroup level.  After creating and destroying of thousands of
child cgroups, slab counter on parent level can be way off the real
value.

For now, let's just stop flushing slab counters on memcg offlining.  It
can't be done correctly without scheduling a work on each cpu: reading
and zeroing it during css offlining can race with an asynchronous
update, which doesn't expect values to be changed underneath.

With this change, slab counters on parent level will become eventually
consistent.  Once all dying children are gone, values are correct.  And
if not, the error is capped by 32 * NR_CPUS pages per dying cgroup.

It's not perfect, as slab are reparented, so any updates after the
reparenting will happen on the parent level.  It means that if a slab
page was allocated, a counter on child level was bumped, then the page
was reparented and freed, the annihilation of positive and negative
counter values will not happen until the child cgroup is released.  It
makes slab counters different from others, and it might want us to
implement flushing in a correct form again.  But it's also a question of
performance: scheduling a work on each cpu isn't free, and it's an open
question if the benefit of having more accurate counters is worth it.

We might also consider flushing all counters on offlining, not only slab
counters.

So let's fix the main problem now: make the slab counters eventually
consistent, so at least the error won't grow with uptime (or more
precisely the number of created and destroyed cgroups).  And think about
the accuracy of counters separately.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191220042728.1045881-1-guro@fb.com
Fixes: bee07b33db78 ("mm: memcontrol: flush percpu slab vmstats on kmem offlining")
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol: use vmstat names for printing statistics 2019-12-05T03:44:11+00:00 Konstantin Khlebnikov khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru 2019-12-05T00:49:53+00:00 ebc5d83d04438116c24dcc556b0ab6c8ef64b77e Use common names from vmstat array when possible. This gives not much difference in code size for now, but should help in keeping interfaces consistent. add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 70/-72 (-2) Function old new delta memory_stat_format 984 1050 +66 memcg_stat_show 957 961 +4 memcg1_event_names 32 - -32 mem_cgroup_lru_names 40 - -40 Total: Before=14485337, After=14485335, chg -0.00% Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157113012508.453.80391533767219371.stgit@buzz Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Use common names from vmstat array when possible.  This gives not much
difference in code size for now, but should help in keeping interfaces
consistent.

  add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 70/-72 (-2)
  Function                                     old     new   delta
  memory_stat_format                           984    1050     +66
  memcg_stat_show                              957     961      +4
  memcg1_event_names                            32       -     -32
  mem_cgroup_lru_names                          40       -     -40
  Total: Before=14485337, After=14485335, chg -0.00%

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157113012508.453.80391533767219371.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: clean up and clarify lruvec lookup procedure 2019-12-01T20:59:06+00:00 Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org 2019-12-01T01:55:34+00:00 867e5e1de14b2b2bde324cdfeec3f3f83eb21424 There is a per-memcg lruvec and a NUMA node lruvec. Which one is being used is somewhat confusing right now, and it's easy to make mistakes - especially when it comes to global reclaim. How it works: when memory cgroups are enabled, we always use the root_mem_cgroup's per-node lruvecs. When memory cgroups are not compiled in or disabled at runtime, we use pgdat->lruvec. Document that in a comment. Due to the way the reclaim code is generalized, all lookups use the mem_cgroup_lruvec() helper function, and nobody should have to find the right lruvec manually right now. But to avoid future mistakes, rename the pgdat->lruvec member to pgdat->__lruvec and delete the convenience wrapper that suggests it's a commonly accessed member. While in this area, swap the mem_cgroup_lruvec() argument order. The name suggests a memcg operation, yet it takes a pgdat first and a memcg second. I have to double take every time I call this. Fix that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022144803.302233-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
There is a per-memcg lruvec and a NUMA node lruvec.  Which one is being
used is somewhat confusing right now, and it's easy to make mistakes -
especially when it comes to global reclaim.

How it works: when memory cgroups are enabled, we always use the
root_mem_cgroup's per-node lruvecs.  When memory cgroups are not compiled
in or disabled at runtime, we use pgdat->lruvec.

Document that in a comment.

Due to the way the reclaim code is generalized, all lookups use the
mem_cgroup_lruvec() helper function, and nobody should have to find the
right lruvec manually right now.  But to avoid future mistakes, rename the
pgdat->lruvec member to pgdat->__lruvec and delete the convenience wrapper
that suggests it's a commonly accessed member.

While in this area, swap the mem_cgroup_lruvec() argument order.  The name
suggests a memcg operation, yet it takes a pgdat first and a memcg second.
I have to double take every time I call this.  Fix that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022144803.302233-3-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: vmscan: memcontrol: remove mem_cgroup_select_victim_node() 2019-12-01T14:29:18+00:00 Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com 2019-12-01T01:50:16+00:00 fa40d1ee9f156624658ca409a04a78882ca5b3c5 Since commit 1ba6fc9af35b ("mm: vmscan: do not share cgroup iteration between reclaimers"), the memcg reclaim does not bail out earlier based on sc->nr_reclaimed and will traverse all the nodes. All the reclaimable pages of the memcg on all the nodes will be scanned relative to the reclaim priority. So, there is no need to maintain state regarding which node to start the memcg reclaim from. This patch effectively reverts the commit 889976dbcb12 ("memcg: reclaim memory from nodes in round-robin order") and commit 453a9bf347f1 ("memcg: fix numa scan information update to be triggered by memory event"). [shakeelb@google.com: v2] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030204232.139424-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029234753.224143-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Since commit 1ba6fc9af35b ("mm: vmscan: do not share cgroup iteration
between reclaimers"), the memcg reclaim does not bail out earlier based
on sc->nr_reclaimed and will traverse all the nodes.  All the
reclaimable pages of the memcg on all the nodes will be scanned relative
to the reclaim priority.  So, there is no need to maintain state
regarding which node to start the memcg reclaim from.

This patch effectively reverts the commit 889976dbcb12 ("memcg: reclaim
memory from nodes in round-robin order") and commit 453a9bf347f1
("memcg: fix numa scan information update to be triggered by memory
event").

[shakeelb@google.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191030204232.139424-1-shakeelb@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029234753.224143-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: memcontrol: try harder to set a new memory.high 2019-12-01T14:29:18+00:00 Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org 2019-12-01T01:50:09+00:00 8c8c383c04f6cbcda38e38b2430cb245da4d7e5a Setting a memory.high limit below the usage makes almost no effort to shrink the cgroup to the new target size. While memory.high is a "soft" limit that isn't supposed to cause OOM situations, we should still try harder to meet a user request through persistent reclaim. For example, after setting a 10M memory.high on an 800M cgroup full of file cache, the usage shrinks to about 350M: + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 841568256 + echo 10M + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 355729408 This isn't exactly what the user would expect to happen. Setting the value a few more times eventually whittles the usage down to what we are asking for: + echo 10M + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 104181760 + echo 10M + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 31801344 + echo 10M + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 10440704 To improve this, add reclaim retry loops to the memory.high write() callback, similar to what we do for memory.max, to make a reasonable effort that the usage meets the requested size after the call returns. Afterwards, a single write() to memory.high is enough in all but extreme cases: + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 841609216 + echo 10M + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current 10182656 790M is not a reasonable reclaim target to ask of a single reclaim invocation. And it wouldn't be reasonable to optimize the reclaim code for it. So asking for the full size but retrying is not a bad choice here: we express our intent, and benefit if reclaim becomes better at handling larger requests, but we also acknowledge that some of the deltas we can encounter in memory_high_write() are just too ridiculously big for a single reclaim invocation to manage. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022201518.341216-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Setting a memory.high limit below the usage makes almost no effort to
shrink the cgroup to the new target size.

While memory.high is a "soft" limit that isn't supposed to cause OOM
situations, we should still try harder to meet a user request through
persistent reclaim.

For example, after setting a 10M memory.high on an 800M cgroup full of
file cache, the usage shrinks to about 350M:

  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  841568256
  + echo 10M
  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  355729408

This isn't exactly what the user would expect to happen. Setting the
value a few more times eventually whittles the usage down to what we
are asking for:

  + echo 10M
  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  104181760
  + echo 10M
  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  31801344
  + echo 10M
  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  10440704

To improve this, add reclaim retry loops to the memory.high write()
callback, similar to what we do for memory.max, to make a reasonable
effort that the usage meets the requested size after the call returns.

Afterwards, a single write() to memory.high is enough in all but extreme
cases:

  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  841609216
  + echo 10M
  + cat /cgroup/workingset/memory.current
  10182656

790M is not a reasonable reclaim target to ask of a single reclaim
invocation.  And it wouldn't be reasonable to optimize the reclaim code
for it.  So asking for the full size but retrying is not a bad choice
here: we express our intent, and benefit if reclaim becomes better at
handling larger requests, but we also acknowledge that some of the
deltas we can encounter in memory_high_write() are just too ridiculously
big for a single reclaim invocation to manage.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022201518.341216-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: memcontrol: remove dead code from memory_max_write() 2019-12-01T14:29:18+00:00 Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org 2019-12-01T01:50:06+00:00 7249c9f01da30ae5cd1843a54a8fab9b35dd979d When the reclaim loop in memory_max_write() is ^C'd or similar, we set err to -EINTR. But we don't return err. Once the limit is set, we always return success (nbytes). Delete the dead code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022201518.341216-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
When the reclaim loop in memory_max_write() is ^C'd or similar, we set err
to -EINTR.  But we don't return err.  Once the limit is set, we always
return success (nbytes).  Delete the dead code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022201518.341216-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm, memcg: clean up reclaim iter array 2019-12-01T14:29:18+00:00 Yafang Shao laoar.shao@gmail.com 2019-12-01T01:50:03+00:00 9da83f3fc74b806ee419a29977ef0239454bd8ec The mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie is only used in memcg softlimit reclaim now, and the priority of the reclaim is always 0. We don't need to define the iter in struct mem_cgroup_per_node as an array any more. That could make the code more clear and save some space. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1569897728-1686-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
The mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie is only used in memcg softlimit reclaim now,
and the priority of the reclaim is always 0.  We don't need to define the
iter in struct mem_cgroup_per_node as an array any more.  That could make
the code more clear and save some space.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1569897728-1686-1-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-11-27T00:02:40+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2019-11-27T00:02:40+00:00 168829ad09ca9cdfdc664b2110d0e3569932c12d Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al) - Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations. With these performance improvements the generic implementation of refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled unconditionally. (Will Deacon) - Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits) lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the <linux/refcount.h> header locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values futex: Prevent exit livelock futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting futex: Add mutex around futex exit futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well futex: Sanitize exit state handling futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec exit/exec: Seperate mm_release() futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state ... 
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling
     to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al)

   - Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using
     atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the
     cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations.

     With these performance improvements the generic implementation of
     refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got
     confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and
     REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled
     unconditionally. (Will Deacon)

   - Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
  locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function
  locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
  locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions
  locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line
  locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
  locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the <linux/refcount.h> header
  locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants
  locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed
  locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values
  futex: Prevent exit livelock
  futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
  futex: Add mutex around futex exit
  futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
  futex: Sanitize exit state handling
  futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
  futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
  futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
  exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
  futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
  ...
mm: memcg: switch to css_tryget() in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() 2019-11-16T02:34:00+00:00 Roman Gushchin guro@fb.com 2019-11-16T01:34:43+00:00 00d484f354d85845991b40141d40ba9e5eb60faf We've encountered a rcu stall in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(): rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 33-....: (21000 ticks this GP) idle=6c6/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=35441/35441 fqs=5017 (t=21031 jiffies g=324821 q=95837) NMI backtrace for cpu 33 <...> RIP: 0010:get_mem_cgroup_from_mm+0x2f/0x90 <...> __memcg_kmem_charge+0x55/0x140 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x267/0x320 pipe_write+0x1ad/0x400 new_sync_write+0x127/0x1c0 __kernel_write+0x4f/0xf0 dump_emit+0x91/0xc0 writenote+0xa0/0xc0 elf_core_dump+0x11af/0x1430 do_coredump+0xc65/0xee0 get_signal+0x132/0x7c0 do_signal+0x36/0x640 exit_to_usermode_loop+0x61/0xd0 do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 The problem is caused by an exiting task which is associated with an offline memcg. We're iterating over and over in the do {} while (!css_tryget_online()) loop, but obviously the memcg won't become online and the exiting task won't be migrated to a live memcg. Let's fix it by switching from css_tryget_online() to css_tryget(). As css_tryget_online() cannot guarantee that the memcg won't go offline, the check is usually useless, except some rare cases when for example it determines if something should be presented to a user. A similar problem is described by commit 18fa84a2db0e ("cgroup: Use css_tryget() instead of css_tryget_online() in task_get_css()"). Johannes: : The bug aside, it doesn't matter whether the cgroup is online for the : callers. It used to matter when offlining needed to evacuate all charges : from the memcg, and so needed to prevent new ones from showing up, but we : don't care now. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106225131.3543616-1-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeeb@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
We've encountered a rcu stall in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm():

  rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
  rcu: 33-....: (21000 ticks this GP) idle=6c6/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=35441/35441 fqs=5017
  (t=21031 jiffies g=324821 q=95837) NMI backtrace for cpu 33
  <...>
  RIP: 0010:get_mem_cgroup_from_mm+0x2f/0x90
  <...>
   __memcg_kmem_charge+0x55/0x140
   __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x267/0x320
   pipe_write+0x1ad/0x400
   new_sync_write+0x127/0x1c0
   __kernel_write+0x4f/0xf0
   dump_emit+0x91/0xc0
   writenote+0xa0/0xc0
   elf_core_dump+0x11af/0x1430
   do_coredump+0xc65/0xee0
   get_signal+0x132/0x7c0
   do_signal+0x36/0x640
   exit_to_usermode_loop+0x61/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x100
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The problem is caused by an exiting task which is associated with an
offline memcg.  We're iterating over and over in the do {} while
(!css_tryget_online()) loop, but obviously the memcg won't become online
and the exiting task won't be migrated to a live memcg.

Let's fix it by switching from css_tryget_online() to css_tryget().

As css_tryget_online() cannot guarantee that the memcg won't go offline,
the check is usually useless, except some rare cases when for example it
determines if something should be presented to a user.

A similar problem is described by commit 18fa84a2db0e ("cgroup: Use
css_tryget() instead of css_tryget_online() in task_get_css()").

Johannes:

: The bug aside, it doesn't matter whether the cgroup is online for the
: callers.  It used to matter when offlining needed to evacuate all charges
: from the memcg, and so needed to prevent new ones from showing up, but we
: don't care now.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106225131.3543616-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeeb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: memcontrol: fix network errors from failing __GFP_ATOMIC charges 2019-11-06T16:47:50+00:00 Johannes Weiner hannes@cmpxchg.org 2019-11-06T05:17:13+00:00 869712fd3de5a90b7ba23ae1272278cddc66b37b While upgrading from 4.16 to 5.2, we noticed these allocation errors in the log of the new kernel: SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0xa20(GFP_ATOMIC) cache: tw_sock_TCPv6(960:helper-logs), object size: 232, buffer size: 240, default order: 1, min order: 0 node 0: slabs: 5, objs: 170, free: 0 slab_out_of_memory+1 ___slab_alloc+969 __slab_alloc+14 kmem_cache_alloc+346 inet_twsk_alloc+60 tcp_time_wait+46 tcp_fin+206 tcp_data_queue+2034 tcp_rcv_state_process+784 tcp_v6_do_rcv+405 __release_sock+118 tcp_close+385 inet_release+46 __sock_release+55 sock_close+17 __fput+170 task_work_run+127 exit_to_usermode_loop+191 do_syscall_64+212 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68 accompanied by an increase in machines going completely radio silent under memory pressure. One thing that changed since 4.16 is e699e2c6a654 ("net, mm: account sock objects to kmemcg"), which made these slab caches subject to cgroup memory accounting and control. The problem with that is that cgroups, unlike the page allocator, do not maintain dedicated atomic reserves. As a cgroup's usage hovers at its limit, atomic allocations - such as done during network rx - can fail consistently for extended periods of time. The kernel is not able to operate under these conditions. We don't want to revert the culprit patch, because it indeed tracks a potentially substantial amount of memory used by a cgroup. We also don't want to implement dedicated atomic reserves for cgroups. There is no point in keeping a fixed margin of unused bytes in the cgroup's memory budget to accomodate a consumer that is impossible to predict - we'd be wasting memory and get into configuration headaches, not unlike what we have going with min_free_kbytes. We do this for physical mem because we have to, but cgroups are an accounting game. Instead, account these privileged allocations to the cgroup, but let them bypass the configured limit if they have to. This way, we get the benefits of accounting the consumed memory and have it exert pressure on the rest of the cgroup, but like with the page allocator, we shift the burden of reclaimining on behalf of atomic allocations onto the regular allocations that can block. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022233708.365764-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: e699e2c6a654 ("net, mm: account sock objects to kmemcg") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.18+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
While upgrading from 4.16 to 5.2, we noticed these allocation errors in
the log of the new kernel:

  SLUB: Unable to allocate memory on node -1, gfp=0xa20(GFP_ATOMIC)
    cache: tw_sock_TCPv6(960:helper-logs), object size: 232, buffer size: 240, default order: 1, min order: 0
    node 0: slabs: 5, objs: 170, free: 0

        slab_out_of_memory+1
        ___slab_alloc+969
        __slab_alloc+14
        kmem_cache_alloc+346
        inet_twsk_alloc+60
        tcp_time_wait+46
        tcp_fin+206
        tcp_data_queue+2034
        tcp_rcv_state_process+784
        tcp_v6_do_rcv+405
        __release_sock+118
        tcp_close+385
        inet_release+46
        __sock_release+55
        sock_close+17
        __fput+170
        task_work_run+127
        exit_to_usermode_loop+191
        do_syscall_64+212
        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+68

accompanied by an increase in machines going completely radio silent
under memory pressure.

One thing that changed since 4.16 is e699e2c6a654 ("net, mm: account
sock objects to kmemcg"), which made these slab caches subject to cgroup
memory accounting and control.

The problem with that is that cgroups, unlike the page allocator, do not
maintain dedicated atomic reserves.  As a cgroup's usage hovers at its
limit, atomic allocations - such as done during network rx - can fail
consistently for extended periods of time.  The kernel is not able to
operate under these conditions.

We don't want to revert the culprit patch, because it indeed tracks a
potentially substantial amount of memory used by a cgroup.

We also don't want to implement dedicated atomic reserves for cgroups.
There is no point in keeping a fixed margin of unused bytes in the
cgroup's memory budget to accomodate a consumer that is impossible to
predict - we'd be wasting memory and get into configuration headaches,
not unlike what we have going with min_free_kbytes.  We do this for
physical mem because we have to, but cgroups are an accounting game.

Instead, account these privileged allocations to the cgroup, but let
them bypass the configured limit if they have to.  This way, we get the
benefits of accounting the consumed memory and have it exert pressure on
the rest of the cgroup, but like with the page allocator, we shift the
burden of reclaimining on behalf of atomic allocations onto the regular
allocations that can block.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022233708.365764-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: e699e2c6a654 ("net, mm: account sock objects to kmemcg")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.18+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>