Re: [-mm][PATCH 3/4] Add rlimit controller accounting and control

From: Paul Menage
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 23:18:09 EST


On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> +
> +int rlimit_cgroup_charge_as(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> + int ret;
> + struct rlimit_cgroup *rcg;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> + css_get(&rcg->css);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + ret = res_counter_charge(&rcg->as_res, (nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT));
> + css_put(&rcg->css);
> + return ret;
> +}

You need to synchronize against mm->owner changing, or
mm->owner->cgroups changing. How about:

int rlimit_cgroup_charge_as(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages)
{
int ret;
struct rlimit_cgroup *rcg;
struct task_struct *owner;

rcu_read_lock();
again:

/* Find and lock the owner of the mm */
owner = rcu_dereference(mm->owner);
task_lock(owner);
if (mm->owner != owner) {
task_unlock(owner);
goto again;
}

/* Charge the owner's cgroup with the new memory */
rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_task(owner);
ret = res_counter_charge(&rcg->as_res, (nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT));
task_unlock(owner);
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}

> +
> +void rlimit_cgroup_uncharge_as(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long nr_pages)
> +{
> + struct rlimit_cgroup *rcg;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> + css_get(&rcg->css);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> + res_counter_uncharge(&rcg->as_res, (nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT));
> + css_put(&rcg->css);
> +}

Can't this be implemented as just a call to charge() with a negative
value? (Possibly fixing res_counter_charge() to handle negative values
if necessary) Seems simpler.

>
> +/*
> + * TODO: get the attach callbacks to fail and disallow task movement.
> + */

You mean disallow all movement within a hierarchy that has this cgroup
mounted? Doesn't that make it rather hard to use?

> +static void rlimit_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
> + struct cgroup *cgrp,
> + struct cgroup *old_cgrp,
> + struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + struct mm_struct *mm;
> + struct rlimit_cgroup *rcg, *old_rcg;
> +
> + mm = get_task_mm(p);
> + if (mm == NULL)
> + return;
> +
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + if (p != rcu_dereference(mm->owner))
> + goto out;
> +
> + rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_cgrp(cgrp);
> + old_rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_cgrp(old_cgrp);
> +
> + if (rcg == old_rcg)
> + goto out;
> +
> + if (res_counter_charge(&rcg->as_res, (mm->total_vm << PAGE_SHIFT)))
> + goto out;
> + res_counter_uncharge(&old_rcg->as_res, (mm->total_vm << PAGE_SHIFT));
> +out:
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + mmput(mm);
> +}
> +

Since you need to protect against concurrent charges, and against
concurrent mm ownership changes, I think you should just do this under
task_lock(p).

> +static void rlimit_cgroup_mm_owner_changed(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
> + struct cgroup *cgrp,
> + struct cgroup *old_cgrp,
> + struct task_struct *p)
> +{
> + struct rlimit_cgroup *rcg, *old_rcg;
> + struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p);
> +
> + BUG_ON(!mm);
> + rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_cgrp(cgrp);
> + old_rcg = rlimit_cgroup_from_cgrp(old_cgrp);
> + if (res_counter_charge(&rcg->as_res, (mm->total_vm << PAGE_SHIFT)))
> + goto out;
> + res_counter_uncharge(&old_rcg->as_res, (mm->total_vm << PAGE_SHIFT));
> +out:
> + mmput(mm);
> +}
> +

Also needs to task_lock(p) to prevent concurrent charges or cgroup
reassignments?

Paul
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