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authorGreg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>2015-10-01 15:37:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-10-01 21:42:35 -0400
commit0610c25daa3e76e38ad5a8fae683a89ff9f71798 (patch)
tree4e37a050e59f20773ec59af2191b9bc6b9da66fe /mm
parent8346c416d17bf5b4ea1508662959bb62e73fd6a5 (diff)
downloadlinux-0610c25daa3e76e38ad5a8fae683a89ff9f71798.tar.bz2
memcg: fix dirty page migration
The problem starts with a file backed dirty page which is charged to a memcg. Then page migration is used to move oldpage to newpage. Migration: - copies the oldpage's data to newpage - clears oldpage.PG_dirty - sets newpage.PG_dirty - uncharges oldpage from memcg - charges newpage to memcg Clearing oldpage.PG_dirty decrements the charged memcg's dirty page count. However, because newpage is not yet charged, setting newpage.PG_dirty does not increment the memcg's dirty page count. After migration completes newpage.PG_dirty is eventually cleared, often in account_page_cleaned(). At this time newpage is charged to a memcg so the memcg's dirty page count is decremented which causes underflow because the count was not previously incremented by migration. This underflow causes balance_dirty_pages() to see a very large unsigned number of dirty memcg pages which leads to aggressive throttling of buffered writes by processes in non root memcg. This issue: - can harm performance of non root memcg buffered writes. - can report too small (even negative) values in memory.stat[(total_)dirty] counters of all memcg, including the root. To avoid polluting migrate.c with #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG checks, introduce page_memcg() and set_page_memcg() helpers. Test: 0) setup and enter limited memcg mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test echo 1G > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs 1) buffered writes baseline dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k sync grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat 2) buffered writes with compaction antagonist to induce migration yes 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory & rm -rf /data/tmp/foo dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k kill % sync grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat 3) buffered writes without antagonist, should match baseline rm -rf /data/tmp/foo dd if=/dev/zero of=/data/tmp/foo bs=1M count=1k sync grep ^dirty /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.stat (speed, dirty residue) unpatched patched 1) 841 MB/s 0 dirty pages 886 MB/s 0 dirty pages 2) 611 MB/s -33427456 dirty pages 793 MB/s 0 dirty pages 3) 114 MB/s -33427456 dirty pages 891 MB/s 0 dirty pages Notice that unpatched baseline performance (1) fell after migration (3): 841 -> 114 MB/s. In the patched kernel, post migration performance matches baseline. Fixes: c4843a7593a9 ("memcg: add per cgroup dirty page accounting") Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [4.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/migrate.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 7452a00bbb50..842ecd7aaf7f 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -740,6 +740,15 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
if (PageSwapBacked(page))
SetPageSwapBacked(newpage);
+ /*
+ * Indirectly called below, migrate_page_copy() copies PG_dirty and thus
+ * needs newpage's memcg set to transfer memcg dirty page accounting.
+ * So perform memcg migration in two steps:
+ * 1. set newpage->mem_cgroup (here)
+ * 2. clear page->mem_cgroup (below)
+ */
+ set_page_memcg(newpage, page_memcg(page));
+
mapping = page_mapping(page);
if (!mapping)
rc = migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
@@ -756,9 +765,10 @@ static int move_to_new_page(struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
rc = fallback_migrate_page(mapping, newpage, page, mode);
if (rc != MIGRATEPAGE_SUCCESS) {
+ set_page_memcg(newpage, NULL);
newpage->mapping = NULL;
} else {
- mem_cgroup_migrate(page, newpage, false);
+ set_page_memcg(page, NULL);
if (page_was_mapped)
remove_migration_ptes(page, newpage);
page->mapping = NULL;