[PATCH v3] mm: kmem: add lockdep assertion to obj_cgroup_memcg

From: Muchun Song
Date: Thu Jul 25 2024 - 05:44:02 EST


The obj_cgroup_memcg() is supposed to safe to prevent the returned
memory cgroup from being freed only when the caller is holding the
rcu read lock or objcg_lock or cgroup_mutex. It is very easy to
ignore thoes conditions when users call some upper APIs which call
obj_cgroup_memcg() internally like mem_cgroup_from_slab_obj() (See
the link below). So it is better to add lockdep assertion to
obj_cgroup_memcg() to find those issues ASAP.

Because there is no user of obj_cgroup_memcg() holding objcg_lock
to make the returned memory cgroup safe, do not add objcg_lock
assertion (We should export objcg_lock if we really want to do).
Additionally, this is some internal implementation detail of memcg
and should not be accessible outside memcg code.

Some users like __mem_cgroup_uncharge() do not care the lifetime
of the returned memory cgroup, which just want to know if the
folio is charged to a memory cgroup, therefore, they do not need
to hold the needed locks. In which case, introduce a new helper
folio_memcg_charged() to do this. Compare it to folio_memcg(), it
could eliminate a memory access of objcg->memcg for kmem, actually,
a really small gain.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240718083607.42068-1-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- Use lockdep_assert_once(Vlastimil).

v2:
- Remove mention of objcg_lock in obj_cgroup_memcg()(Shakeel Butt).

include/linux/memcontrol.h | 20 +++++++++++++++++---
mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index fc94879db4dff..95f823deafeca 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -360,11 +360,11 @@ static inline bool folio_memcg_kmem(struct folio *folio);
* After the initialization objcg->memcg is always pointing at
* a valid memcg, but can be atomically swapped to the parent memcg.
*
- * The caller must ensure that the returned memcg won't be released:
- * e.g. acquire the rcu_read_lock or css_set_lock.
+ * The caller must ensure that the returned memcg won't be released.
*/
static inline struct mem_cgroup *obj_cgroup_memcg(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
{
+ lockdep_assert_once(rcu_read_lock_held() || lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex));
return READ_ONCE(objcg->memcg);
}

@@ -438,6 +438,19 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *folio_memcg(struct folio *folio)
return __folio_memcg(folio);
}

+/*
+ * folio_memcg_charged - If a folio is charged to a memory cgroup.
+ * @folio: Pointer to the folio.
+ *
+ * Returns true if folio is charged to a memory cgroup, otherwise returns false.
+ */
+static inline bool folio_memcg_charged(struct folio *folio)
+{
+ if (folio_memcg_kmem(folio))
+ return __folio_objcg(folio) != NULL;
+ return __folio_memcg(folio) != NULL;
+}
+
/**
* folio_memcg_rcu - Locklessly get the memory cgroup associated with a folio.
* @folio: Pointer to the folio.
@@ -454,7 +467,6 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *folio_memcg_rcu(struct folio *folio)
unsigned long memcg_data = READ_ONCE(folio->memcg_data);

VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_slab(folio), folio);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held());

if (memcg_data & MEMCG_DATA_KMEM) {
struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
@@ -463,6 +475,8 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *folio_memcg_rcu(struct folio *folio)
return obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
}

+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held());
+
return (struct mem_cgroup *)(memcg_data & ~OBJEXTS_FLAGS_MASK);
}

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 622d4544edd24..3da0284573857 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2366,7 +2366,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_cancel_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned int nr_pages)

static void commit_charge(struct folio *folio, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_memcg(folio), folio);
+ VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(folio_memcg_charged(folio), folio);
/*
* Any of the following ensures page's memcg stability:
*
@@ -4617,7 +4617,7 @@ void __mem_cgroup_uncharge(struct folio *folio)
struct uncharge_gather ug;

/* Don't touch folio->lru of any random page, pre-check: */
- if (!folio_memcg(folio))
+ if (!folio_memcg_charged(folio))
return;

uncharge_gather_clear(&ug);
@@ -4662,7 +4662,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_replace_folio(struct folio *old, struct folio *new)
return;

/* Page cache replacement: new folio already charged? */
- if (folio_memcg(new))
+ if (folio_memcg_charged(new))
return;

memcg = folio_memcg(old);
--
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