[PATCH v2 3/7] mm: vmscan: make memcg slab shrink lockless

[Qi Zheng]

Like global slab shrink, since commit 1cd0bd06093c
("rcu: Remove CONFIG_SRCU"), it's time to use SRCU
to protect readers who previously held shrinker_rwsem.

We can test with the following script:

```
DIR="/root/shrinker/memcg/mnt"

do_create()
{
        mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test
        echo 200M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
        for i in `seq 0 $1`;
        do
                mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/$i;
                echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/$i/cgroup.procs;
                mkdir -p $DIR/$i;
        done
}

do_mount()
{
        for i in `seq $1 $2`;
        do
                mount -t tmpfs $i $DIR/$i;
        done
}

do_touch()
{
        for i in `seq $1 $2`;
        do
                echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/test/$i/cgroup.procs;
                dd if=/dev/zero of=$DIR/$i/file$i bs=1M count=1 &
        done
}

do_create 2000
do_mount 0 2000
do_touch 0 1000
```

Before applying:

  46.60%  [kernel]  [k] down_read_trylock
  18.70%  [kernel]  [k] up_read
  15.44%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_slab
   4.37%  [kernel]  [k] _find_next_bit
   2.75%  [kernel]  [k] xa_load
   2.07%  [kernel]  [k] idr_find
   1.73%  [kernel]  [k] do_shrink_slab
   1.42%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_lruvec
   0.74%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_node
   0.60%  [kernel]  [k] list_lru_count_one

After applying:

  19.53%  [kernel]  [k] _find_next_bit
  14.63%  [kernel]  [k] do_shrink_slab
  14.58%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_slab
  11.83%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_lruvec
   9.33%  [kernel]  [k] __blk_flush_plug
   6.67%  [kernel]  [k] mem_cgroup_iter
   3.73%  [kernel]  [k] list_lru_count_one
   2.43%  [kernel]  [k] shrink_node
   1.96%  [kernel]  [k] super_cache_count
   1.78%  [kernel]  [k] __rcu_read_unlock
   1.38%  [kernel]  [k] __srcu_read_lock
   1.30%  [kernel]  [k] xas_descend

We can see that the readers is no longer blocked.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 02987a6f95d1..25a4a660e45f 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/khugepaged.h>
 #include <linux/rculist_nulls.h>
 #include <linux/random.h>
+#include <linux/srcu.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -221,8 +222,21 @@ static inline int shrinker_defer_size(int nr_items)
 static struct shrinker_info *shrinker_info_protected(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 						     int nid)
 {
-	return rcu_dereference_protected(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info,
-					 lockdep_is_held(&shrinker_rwsem));
+	return srcu_dereference_check(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info,
+				      &shrinker_srcu,
+				      lockdep_is_held(&shrinker_rwsem));
+}
+
+static struct shrinker_info *shrinker_info_srcu(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+						     int nid)
+{
+	return srcu_dereference(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info,
+				&shrinker_srcu);
+}
+
+static void free_shrinker_info_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
+{
+	kvfree(container_of(head, struct shrinker_info, rcu));
 }
 
 static inline bool need_expand(int new_nr_max, int old_nr_max)
@@ -268,7 +282,7 @@ static int expand_one_shrinker_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		       defer_size - old_defer_size);
 
 		rcu_assign_pointer(pn->shrinker_info, new);
-		kvfree_rcu(old, rcu);
+		call_srcu(&shrinker_srcu, &old->rcu, free_shrinker_info_rcu);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -357,13 +371,14 @@ void set_shrinker_bit(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int nid, int shrinker_id)
 {
 	if (shrinker_id >= 0 && memcg && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) {
 		struct shrinker_info *info;
+		int srcu_idx;
 
-		rcu_read_lock();
-		info = rcu_dereference(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->shrinker_info);
+		srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu);
+		info = shrinker_info_srcu(memcg, nid);
 		/* Pairs with smp mb in shrink_slab() */
 		smp_mb__before_atomic();
 		set_bit(shrinker_id, info->map);
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+		srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -377,7 +392,6 @@ static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
 		return -ENOSYS;
 
 	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
-	/* This may call shrinker, so it must use down_read_trylock() */
 	id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, shrinker, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (id < 0)
 		goto unlock;
@@ -411,7 +425,7 @@ static long xchg_nr_deferred_memcg(int nid, struct shrinker *shrinker,
 {
 	struct shrinker_info *info;
 
-	info = shrinker_info_protected(memcg, nid);
+	info = shrinker_info_srcu(memcg, nid);
 	return atomic_long_xchg(&info->nr_deferred[shrinker->id], 0);
 }
 
@@ -420,7 +434,7 @@ static long add_nr_deferred_memcg(long nr, int nid, struct shrinker *shrinker,
 {
 	struct shrinker_info *info;
 
-	info = shrinker_info_protected(memcg, nid);
+	info = shrinker_info_srcu(memcg, nid);
 	return atomic_long_add_return(nr, &info->nr_deferred[shrinker->id]);
 }
 
@@ -898,15 +912,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 {
 	struct shrinker_info *info;
 	unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
+	int srcu_idx;
 	int i;
 
 	if (!mem_cgroup_online(memcg))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))
-		return 0;
-
-	info = shrinker_info_protected(memcg, nid);
+	srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu);
+	info = shrinker_info_srcu(memcg, nid);
 	if (unlikely(!info))
 		goto unlock;
 
@@ -956,14 +969,9 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 				set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, i);
 		}
 		freed += ret;
-
-		if (rwsem_is_contended(&shrinker_rwsem)) {
-			freed = freed ? : 1;
-			break;
-		}
 	}
 unlock:
-	up_read(&shrinker_rwsem);
+	srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx);
 	return freed;
 }
 #else /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
-- 
2.20.1