[PATCH 2/3] mm: Charge active memcg when no mm is set

[Dan Schatzberg]

set_active_memcg() worked for kernel allocations but was silently
ignored for user pages.

This patch establishes a precedence order for who gets charged:

1. If there is a memcg associated with the page already, that memcg is
   charged. This happens during swapin.

2. If an explicit mm is passed, mm->memcg is charged. This happens
   during page faults, which can be triggered in remote VMs (eg gup).

3. Otherwise consult the current process context. If there is an
   active_memcg, use that. Otherwise, current->mm->memcg.

Previously, if a NULL mm was passed to mem_cgroup_charge (case 3) it
would always charge the root cgroup. Now it looks up the active_memcg
first (falling back to charging the root cgroup if not set).

Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/filemap.c    |  2 +-
 mm/memcontrol.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 mm/shmem.c      |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 66f7e9fdfbc4..ac82a93d4f38 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ noinline int __add_to_page_cache_locked(struct page *page,
 	page->index = offset;
 
 	if (!huge) {
-		error = mem_cgroup_charge(page, current->mm, gfp);
+		error = mem_cgroup_charge(page, NULL, gfp);
 		if (error)
 			goto error;
 		charged = true;
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 64ada9e650a5..26dc2dc0056a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -886,13 +886,24 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_from_task);
 
+static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *active_memcg(void)
+{
+	if (in_interrupt())
+		return this_cpu_read(int_active_memcg);
+	else
+		return current->active_memcg;
+}
+
 /**
  * get_mem_cgroup_from_mm: Obtain a reference on given mm_struct's memcg.
  * @mm: mm from which memcg should be extracted. It can be NULL.
  *
- * Obtain a reference on mm->memcg and returns it if successful. Otherwise
- * root_mem_cgroup is returned. However if mem_cgroup is disabled, NULL is
- * returned.
+ * Obtain a reference on mm->memcg and returns it if successful. If mm
+ * is NULL, then the memcg is chosen as follows:
+ * 1) The active memcg, if set.
+ * 2) current->mm->memcg, if available
+ * 3) root memcg
+ * If mem_cgroup is disabled, NULL is returned.
  */
 struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
@@ -901,13 +912,23 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
 		return NULL;
 
+	/*
+	 * Page cache insertions can happen without an
+	 * actual mm context, e.g. during disk probing
+	 * on boot, loopback IO, acct() writes etc.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(!mm)) {
+		memcg = active_memcg();
+		if (unlikely(memcg)) {
+			/* remote memcg must hold a ref */
+			css_get(&memcg->css);
+			return memcg;
+		}
+		mm = current->mm;
+	}
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	do {
-		/*
-		 * Page cache insertions can happen without an
-		 * actual mm context, e.g. during disk probing
-		 * on boot, loopback IO, acct() writes etc.
-		 */
 		if (unlikely(!mm))
 			memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
 		else {
@@ -921,14 +942,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_mem_cgroup_from_mm);
 
-static __always_inline struct mem_cgroup *active_memcg(void)
-{
-	if (in_interrupt())
-		return this_cpu_read(int_active_memcg);
-	else
-		return current->active_memcg;
-}
-
 static __always_inline bool memcg_kmem_bypass(void)
 {
 	/* Allow remote memcg charging from any context. */
@@ -6541,7 +6554,8 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_charge(struct page *page, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
  * @gfp_mask: reclaim mode
  *
  * Try to charge @page to the memcg that @mm belongs to, reclaiming
- * pages according to @gfp_mask if necessary.
+ * pages according to @gfp_mask if necessary. if @mm is NULL, try to
+ * charge to the active memcg.
  *
  * Do not use this for pages allocated for swapin.
  *
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5d46611cba8d..2e7af1725ff6 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ static int shmem_swapin_page(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 {
 	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
 	struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
-	struct mm_struct *charge_mm = vma ? vma->vm_mm : current->mm;
+	struct mm_struct *charge_mm = vma ? vma->vm_mm : NULL;
 	struct page *page;
 	swp_entry_t swap;
 	int error;
@@ -1816,7 +1816,7 @@ static int shmem_getpage_gfp(struct inode *inode, pgoff_t index,
 	}
 
 	sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
-	charge_mm = vma ? vma->vm_mm : current->mm;
+	charge_mm = vma ? vma->vm_mm : NULL;
 
 	page = pagecache_get_page(mapping, index,
 					FGP_ENTRY | FGP_HEAD | FGP_LOCK, 0);
-- 
2.30.2