Re: [PATCH V3 4/8] memcg: add per cgroup dirty pages accounting
From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Date: Mon Jan 07 2013 - 02:25:48 EST
(2013/01/05 13:48), Sha Zhengju wrote:
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed 26-12-12 01:26:07, Sha Zhengju wrote:
From: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@xxxxxxxxxx>
This patch adds memcg routines to count dirty pages, which allows memory controller
to maintain an accurate view of the amount of its dirty memory and can provide some
info for users while cgroup's direct reclaim is working.
I guess you meant targeted resp. (hard/soft) limit reclaim here,
right? It is true that this is direct reclaim but it is not clear to me
Yes, I meant memcg hard/soft reclaim here which is triggered directly
by allocation and is distinct from background kswapd reclaim (global).
why the usefulnes should be limitted to the reclaim for users. I would
understand this if the users was in fact in-kernel users.
One of the reasons I'm trying to accounting the dirty pages is to get a
more board overall view of memory usages because memcg hard/soft
reclaim may have effect on response time of user application.
Yeah, the beneficiary can be application administrator or kernel users. :P
[...]
To prevent AB/BA deadlock mentioned by Greg Thelen in previous version
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/30/227), we adjust the lock order:
->private_lock --> mapping->tree_lock --> memcg->move_lock.
So we need to make mapping->tree_lock ahead of TestSetPageDirty in __set_page_dirty()
and __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(). But in order to avoiding useless spinlock contention,
a prepare PageDirty() checking is added.
But there is another AA deadlock here I believe.
page_remove_rmap
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat <<< 1
set_page_dirty
__set_page_dirty_buffers
__set_page_dirty
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat <<< 2
move_lock_mem_cgroup
spin_lock_irqsave(&memcg->move_lock, *flags);
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat is not recursive wrt. locking AFAICS
because we might race with the moving charges:
CPU0 CPU1
page_remove_rmap
mem_cgroup_can_attach
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat (1)
rcu_read_lock
mem_cgroup_start_move
atomic_inc(&memcg_moving)
atomic_inc(&memcg->moving_account)
synchronize_rcu
__mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat
mem_cgroup_stolen <<< TRUE
move_lock_mem_cgroup
[...]
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat (2)
__mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat
mem_cgroup_stolen <<< still TRUE
move_lock_mem_cgroup <<< DEADLOCK
[...]
mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat
rcu_unlock
# wake up from synchronize_rcu
[...]
mem_cgroup_move_task
mem_cgroup_move_charge
walk_page_range
mem_cgroup_move_account
move_lock_mem_cgroup
Maybe I have missed some other locking which would prevent this from
happening but the locking relations are really complicated in this area
so if mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat might be called
recursively then we need a fat comment which justifies that.
Ohhh...good catching! I didn't notice there is a recursive call of
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat in page_remove_rmap().
The mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat() design has depressed
me a lot recently as the lock granularity is a little bigger than I thought.
Not only the resource but also some code logic is in the range of locking
which may be deadlock prone. The problem still exists if we are trying to
add stat account of other memcg page later, may I make bold to suggest
that we dig into the lock again...
But with regard to the current lock implementation, I doubt if we can we can
account MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_{MAPPED, DIRTY} in one breath and just
try to get move_lock once in the beginning. IMHO we can make
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat() to recursive aware and what I'm
thinking now is changing memcg->move_lock to rw-spinlock from the
original spinlock:
mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat() try to get the read lock which make it
reenterable and memcg moving task side try to get the write spinlock.
Then the race may be following:
CPU0 CPU1
page_remove_rmap
mem_cgroup_can_attach
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat (1)
rcu_read_lock
mem_cgroup_start_move
atomic_inc(&memcg_moving)
atomic_inc(&memcg->moving_account)
synchronize_rcu
__mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat
mem_cgroup_stolen <<< TRUE
move_lock_mem_cgroup <<<< read-spinlock success
[...]
mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat (2)
__mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat
mem_cgroup_stolen <<< still TRUE
move_lock_mem_cgroup <<<< read-spinlock success
[...]
mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat <<< locked = true, unlock
rcu_unlock
# wake up from synchronize_rcu
[...]
mem_cgroup_move_task
mem_cgroup_move_charge
walk_page_range
mem_cgroup_move_account
move_lock_mem_cgroup <<< write-spinlock
AFAICS, the deadlock seems to be avoided by both the rcu and rwlock.
Is there anything I lost?
rwlock will work with the nest but it seems ugly do updates under read-lock.
How about this straightforward ?
==
/*
* Once a thread takes memcg_move_lock() on a memcg, it can take the lock on
* the memcg again for nesting calls
*/
static void move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags);
{
current->memcg_move_lock_nested += 1;
if (current->memcg_move_lock_nested > 1) {
VM_BUG_ON(current->move_locked_memcg != memcg);
return;
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&memcg_move_lock, &flags);
current->move_lockdev_memcg = memcg;
}
static void move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags)
{
current->memcg_move_lock_nested -= 1;
if (!current->memcg_move_lock_nested) {
current->move_locked_memcg = NULL;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&memcg_move_lock,flags);
}
}
==
But, hmm, this kind of (ugly) hack may cause trouble as Hugh said.
Thanks,
-Kame
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