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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2012-03-21 16:34:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:55:01 -0700
commit619d094b5872a5af153f1af77a8b7f7326faf0d0 (patch)
tree4de9ff8640d8cee092800cd722e621ea2db63640 /mm/memcontrol.c
parent9e3357907c84517d9e07bc0b19265807f0264b43 (diff)
downloadlinux-619d094b5872a5af153f1af77a8b7f7326faf0d0.tar.bz2
memcg: simplify move_account() check
In memcg, for avoiding take-lock-irq-off at accessing page_cgroup, a logic, flag + rcu_read_lock(), is used. This works as following CPU-A CPU-B rcu_read_lock() set flag if(flag is set) take heavy lock do job. synchronize_rcu() rcu_read_unlock() take heavy lock. In recent discussion, it's argued that using per-cpu value for this flag just complicates the code because 'set flag' is very rare. This patch changes 'flag' implementation from percpu to atomic_t. This will be much simpler. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c70
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index eba04a481e03..cfd2db08cfe1 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ enum mem_cgroup_stat_index {
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED, /* # of pages charged as file rss */
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, /* # of pages, swapped out */
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DATA, /* end of data requires synchronization */
- MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE, /* someone is moving account between groups */
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS,
};
@@ -298,6 +297,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
*/
unsigned long move_charge_at_immigrate;
/*
+ * set > 0 if pages under this cgroup are moving to other cgroup.
+ */
+ atomic_t moving_account;
+ /*
* percpu counter.
*/
struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu *stat;
@@ -1287,35 +1290,36 @@ int mem_cgroup_swappiness(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
return memcg->swappiness;
}
+/*
+ * memcg->moving_account is used for checking possibility that some thread is
+ * calling move_account(). When a thread on CPU-A starts moving pages under
+ * a memcg, other threads should check memcg->moving_account under
+ * rcu_read_lock(), like this:
+ *
+ * CPU-A CPU-B
+ * rcu_read_lock()
+ * memcg->moving_account+1 if (memcg->mocing_account)
+ * take heavy locks.
+ * synchronize_rcu() update something.
+ * rcu_read_unlock()
+ * start move here.
+ */
static void mem_cgroup_start_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- int cpu;
-
- get_online_cpus();
- spin_lock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
- per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE], cpu) += 1;
- memcg->nocpu_base.count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE] += 1;
- spin_unlock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
- put_online_cpus();
-
+ atomic_inc(&memcg->moving_account);
synchronize_rcu();
}
static void mem_cgroup_end_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- int cpu;
-
- if (!memcg)
- return;
- get_online_cpus();
- spin_lock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
- for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
- per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE], cpu) -= 1;
- memcg->nocpu_base.count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE] -= 1;
- spin_unlock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
- put_online_cpus();
+ /*
+ * Now, mem_cgroup_clear_mc() may call this function with NULL.
+ * We check NULL in callee rather than caller.
+ */
+ if (memcg)
+ atomic_dec(&memcg->moving_account);
}
+
/*
* 2 routines for checking "mem" is under move_account() or not.
*
@@ -1331,7 +1335,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_end_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
static bool mem_cgroup_stealed(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
VM_BUG_ON(!rcu_read_lock_held());
- return this_cpu_read(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE]) > 0;
+ return atomic_read(&memcg->moving_account) > 0;
}
static bool mem_cgroup_under_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
@@ -1882,8 +1886,8 @@ bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order)
* by flags.
*
* Considering "move", this is an only case we see a race. To make the race
- * small, we check MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE percpu value and detect there are
- * possibility of race condition. If there is, we take a lock.
+ * small, we check mm->moving_account and detect there are possibility of race
+ * If there is, we take a lock.
*/
void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
@@ -2100,17 +2104,6 @@ static void mem_cgroup_drain_pcp_counter(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int cpu)
per_cpu(memcg->stat->events[i], cpu) = 0;
memcg->nocpu_base.events[i] += x;
}
- /* need to clear ON_MOVE value, works as a kind of lock. */
- per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE], cpu) = 0;
- spin_unlock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
-}
-
-static void synchronize_mem_cgroup_on_move(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int cpu)
-{
- int idx = MEM_CGROUP_ON_MOVE;
-
- spin_lock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
- per_cpu(memcg->stat->count[idx], cpu) = memcg->nocpu_base.count[idx];
spin_unlock(&memcg->pcp_counter_lock);
}
@@ -2122,11 +2115,8 @@ static int __cpuinit memcg_cpu_hotplug_callback(struct notifier_block *nb,
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
struct mem_cgroup *iter;
- if ((action == CPU_ONLINE)) {
- for_each_mem_cgroup(iter)
- synchronize_mem_cgroup_on_move(iter, cpu);
+ if (action == CPU_ONLINE)
return NOTIFY_OK;
- }
if ((action != CPU_DEAD) || action != CPU_DEAD_FROZEN)
return NOTIFY_OK;