[PATCH 3/4] memcg: fix hierarchical reclaim

From: Daisuke Nishimura
Date: Tue Jan 13 2009 - 05:44:21 EST


If root_mem has no children, last_scaned_child is set to root_mem itself.
But after some children added to root_mem, mem_cgroup_get_next_node can
mem_cgroup_put the root_mem although root_mem has not been mem_cgroup_get.

This patch fixes this behavior by:
- Set last_scanned_child to NULL if root_mem has no children or DFS search
has returned to root_mem itself(root_mem is not a "child" of root_mem).
Make mem_cgroup_get_first_node return root_mem in this case.
There are no mem_cgroup_get/put for root_mem.
- Rename mem_cgroup_get_next_node to __mem_cgroup_get_next_node, and
mem_cgroup_get_first_node to mem_cgroup_get_next_node.
Make mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim call only new mem_cgroup_get_next_node.

ChangeLog: RFC->v1
- add mem_cgroup_put of last_scanned_child at mem_cgroup_destroy.
ChangeLog: v1->v2
- cleanup. move all mem_cgroup_get/put to the end of mem_cgroup_get_next_node.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7be9b35..322625f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(unsigned long nr_to_scan,
* called with hierarchy_mutex held
*/
static struct mem_cgroup *
-mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
+__mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
{
struct cgroup *cgroup, *curr_cgroup, *root_cgroup;

@@ -644,19 +644,16 @@ mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
/*
* Walk down to children
*/
- mem_cgroup_put(curr);
cgroup = list_entry(curr_cgroup->children.next,
struct cgroup, sibling);
curr = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
- mem_cgroup_get(curr);
goto done;
}

visit_parent:
if (curr_cgroup == root_cgroup) {
- mem_cgroup_put(curr);
- curr = root_mem;
- mem_cgroup_get(curr);
+ /* caller handles NULL case */
+ curr = NULL;
goto done;
}

@@ -664,11 +661,9 @@ visit_parent:
* Goto next sibling
*/
if (curr_cgroup->sibling.next != &curr_cgroup->parent->children) {
- mem_cgroup_put(curr);
cgroup = list_entry(curr_cgroup->sibling.next, struct cgroup,
sibling);
curr = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
- mem_cgroup_get(curr);
goto done;
}

@@ -679,7 +674,6 @@ visit_parent:
goto visit_parent;

done:
- root_mem->last_scanned_child = curr;
return curr;
}

@@ -689,40 +683,46 @@ done:
* that to reclaim free pages from.
*/
static struct mem_cgroup *
-mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
+mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
{
struct cgroup *cgroup;
- struct mem_cgroup *ret;
+ struct mem_cgroup *orig, *next;
bool obsolete;

- obsolete = mem_cgroup_is_obsolete(root_mem->last_scanned_child);
-
/*
* Scan all children under the mem_cgroup mem
*/
mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
+
+ orig = root_mem->last_scanned_child;
+ obsolete = mem_cgroup_is_obsolete(orig);
+
if (list_empty(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children)) {
- ret = root_mem;
+ /*
+ * root_mem might have children before and last_scanned_child
+ * may point to one of them. We put it later.
+ */
+ if (orig)
+ VM_BUG_ON(!obsolete);
+ next = NULL;
goto done;
}

- if (!root_mem->last_scanned_child || obsolete) {
-
- if (obsolete && root_mem->last_scanned_child)
- mem_cgroup_put(root_mem->last_scanned_child);
-
+ if (!orig || obsolete) {
cgroup = list_first_entry(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children,
struct cgroup, sibling);
- ret = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
- mem_cgroup_get(ret);
+ next = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
} else
- ret = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem->last_scanned_child,
- root_mem);
+ next = __mem_cgroup_get_next_node(orig, root_mem);

done:
- root_mem->last_scanned_child = ret;
+ if (next)
+ mem_cgroup_get(next);
+ root_mem->last_scanned_child = next;
+ if (orig)
+ mem_cgroup_put(orig);
mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
- return ret;
+ return (next) ? next : root_mem;
}

static bool mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(struct mem_cgroup *mem)
@@ -780,21 +780,18 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(struct mem_cgroup *root_mem,
if (!root_mem->use_hierarchy)
return ret;

- next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_first_node(root_mem);
+ next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem);

while (next_mem != root_mem) {
if (mem_cgroup_is_obsolete(next_mem)) {
- mem_cgroup_put(next_mem);
- next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_first_node(root_mem);
+ next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem);
continue;
}
ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(next_mem, gfp_mask, noswap,
get_swappiness(next_mem));
if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem))
return 0;
- mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
- next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(next_mem, root_mem);
- mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
+ next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(root_mem);
}
return ret;
}
@@ -2254,7 +2251,14 @@ static void mem_cgroup_pre_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
static void mem_cgroup_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
struct cgroup *cont)
{
- mem_cgroup_put(mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont));
+ struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont);
+ struct mem_cgroup *last_scanned_child = mem->last_scanned_child;
+
+ if (last_scanned_child) {
+ VM_BUG_ON(!mem_cgroup_is_obsolete(last_scanned_child));
+ mem_cgroup_put(last_scanned_child);
+ }
+ mem_cgroup_put(mem);
}

static int mem_cgroup_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
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