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Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/memcontrol.h | 42 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h index 3f8ff6519c9d..0301b231fd02 100644 --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -355,12 +355,49 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void) return !cgroup_subsys_enabled(memory_cgrp_subsys); } -static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, +static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool in_low_reclaim) { if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return 0; + /* + * There is no reclaim protection applied to a targeted reclaim. + * We are special casing this specific case here because + * mem_cgroup_protected calculation is not robust enough to keep + * the protection invariant for calculated effective values for + * parallel reclaimers with different reclaim target. This is + * especially a problem for tail memcgs (as they have pages on LRU) + * which would want to have effective values 0 for targeted reclaim + * but a different value for external reclaim. + * + * Example + * Let's have global and A's reclaim in parallel: + * | + * A (low=2G, usage = 3G, max = 3G, children_low_usage = 1.5G) + * |\ + * | C (low = 1G, usage = 2.5G) + * B (low = 1G, usage = 0.5G) + * + * For the global reclaim + * A.elow = A.low + * B.elow = min(B.usage, B.low) because children_low_usage <= A.elow + * C.elow = min(C.usage, C.low) + * + * With the effective values resetting we have A reclaim + * A.elow = 0 + * B.elow = B.low + * C.elow = C.low + * + * If the global reclaim races with A's reclaim then + * B.elow = C.elow = 0 because children_low_usage > A.elow) + * is possible and reclaiming B would be violating the protection. + * + */ + if (root == memcg) + return 0; + if (in_low_reclaim) return READ_ONCE(memcg->memory.emin); @@ -891,7 +928,8 @@ static inline void memcg_memory_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, { } -static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, +static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root, + struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool in_low_reclaim) { return 0; |