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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2021-04-30 08:56:11 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-04-30 21:20:37 +0300
commita3d4c05a447486b90298a8c964916c8f4fcb903f (patch)
treecf9c6df000ec01e31eb4243004beda958005fdaf /mm/memcontrol.c
parent3d0cbb9816935ea3846eb2c0d3c07cd31697267e (diff)
downloadlinux-a3d4c05a447486b90298a8c964916c8f4fcb903f.tar.xz
mm: memcontrol: fix cpuhotplug statistics flushing
Patch series "mm: memcontrol: switch to rstat", v3. This series converts memcg stats tracking to the streamlined rstat infrastructure provided by the cgroup core code. rstat is already used by the CPU controller and the IO controller. This change is motivated by recent accuracy problems in memcg's custom stats code, as well as the benefits of sharing common infra with other controllers. The current memcg implementation does batched tree aggregation on the write side: local stat changes are cached in per-cpu counters, which are then propagated upward in batches when a threshold (32 pages) is exceeded. This is cheap, but the error introduced by the lazy upward propagation adds up: 32 pages times CPUs times cgroups in the subtree. We've had complaints from service owners that the stats do not reliably track and react to allocation behavior as expected, sometimes swallowing the results of entire test applications. The original memcg stat implementation used to do tree aggregation exclusively on the read side: local stats would only ever be tracked in per-cpu counters, and a memory.stat read would iterate the entire subtree and sum those counters up. This didn't keep up with the times: - Cgroup trees are much bigger now. We switched to lazily-freed cgroups, where deleted groups would hang around until their remaining page cache has been reclaimed. This can result in large subtrees that are expensive to walk, while most of the groups are idle and their statistics don't change much anymore. - Automated monitoring increased. With the proliferation of userspace oom killing, proactive reclaim, and higher-resolution logging of workload trends in general, top-level stat files are polled at least once a second in many deployments. - The lifetime of cgroups got shorter. Where most cgroup setups in the past would have a few large policy-oriented cgroups for everything running on the system, newer cgroup deployments tend to create one group per application - which gets deleted again as the processes exit. An aggregation scheme that doesn't retain child data inside the parents loses event history of the subtree. Rstat addresses all three of those concerns through intelligent, persistent read-side aggregation. As statistics change at the local level, rstat tracks - on a per-cpu basis - only those parts of a subtree that have changes pending and require aggregation. The actual aggregation occurs on the colder read side - which can now skip over (potentially large) numbers of recently idle cgroups. === The test_kmem cgroup selftest is currently failing due to excessive cumulative vmstat drift from 100 subgroups: ok 1 test_kmem_basic memory.current = 8810496 slab + anon + file + kernel_stack = 17074568 slab = 6101384 anon = 946176 file = 0 kernel_stack = 10027008 not ok 2 test_kmem_memcg_deletion ok 3 test_kmem_proc_kpagecgroup ok 4 test_kmem_kernel_stacks ok 5 test_kmem_dead_cgroups ok 6 test_percpu_basic As you can see, memory.stat items far exceed memory.current. The kernel stack alone is bigger than all of charged memory. That's because the memory of the test has been uncharged from memory.current, but the negative vmstat deltas are still sitting in the percpu caches. The test at this time isn't even counting percpu, pagetables etc. yet, which would further contribute to the error. The last patch in the series updates the test to include them - as well as reduces the vmstat tolerances in general to only expect page_counter batching. With all patches applied, the (now more stringent) test succeeds: ok 1 test_kmem_basic ok 2 test_kmem_memcg_deletion ok 3 test_kmem_proc_kpagecgroup ok 4 test_kmem_kernel_stacks ok 5 test_kmem_dead_cgroups ok 6 test_percpu_basic === A kernel build test confirms that overhead is comparable. Two kernels are built simultaneously in a nested tree with several idle siblings: root - kernelbuild - one - two - three - four - build-a (defconfig, make -j16) `- build-b (defconfig, make -j16) `- idle-1 `- ... `- idle-9 During the builds, kernelbuild/memory.stat is read once a second. A perf diff shows that the changes in cycle distribution is minimal. Top 10 kernel symbols: 0.09% +0.08% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mod_memcg_lruvec_state 0.00% +0.06% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cgroup_rstat_updated 0.08% -0.05% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mod_memcg_state.part.0 0.16% -0.04% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] release_pages 0.00% +0.03% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __count_memcg_events 0.01% +0.03% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_charge_statistics.constprop.0 0.10% -0.02% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] get_mem_cgroup_from_mm 0.05% -0.02% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_update_lru_size 0.57% +0.01% [kernel.kallsyms] [k] asm_exc_page_fault === The on-demand aggregated stats are now fully accurate: $ grep -e nr_inactive_file /proc/vmstat | awk '{print($1,$2*4096)}'; \ grep -e inactive_file /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.stat vanilla: patched: nr_inactive_file 1574105088 nr_inactive_file 1027801088 inactive_file 1577410560 inactive_file 1027801088 === This patch (of 8): The memcg hotunplug callback erroneously flushes counts on the local CPU, not the counts of the CPU going away; those counts will be lost. Flush the CPU that is actually going away. Also simplify the code a bit by using mod_memcg_state() and count_memcg_events() instead of open-coding the upward flush - this is comparable to how vmstat.c handles hotunplug flushing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209163304.77088-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210209163304.77088-2-hannes@cmpxchg.org Fixes: a983b5ebee572 ("mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting") Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c35
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e01602134759..5be0e8834a5a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2370,45 +2370,52 @@ static void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
static int memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
{
struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock;
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg, *mi;
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
stock = &per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu);
drain_stock(stock);
for_each_mem_cgroup(memcg) {
+ struct memcg_vmstats_percpu *statc;
int i;
+ statc = per_cpu_ptr(memcg->vmstats_percpu, cpu);
+
for (i = 0; i < MEMCG_NR_STAT; i++) {
int nid;
- long x;
- x = this_cpu_xchg(memcg->vmstats_percpu->stat[i], 0);
- if (x)
- for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi))
- atomic_long_add(x, &memcg->vmstats[i]);
+ if (statc->stat[i]) {
+ mod_memcg_state(memcg, i, statc->stat[i]);
+ statc->stat[i] = 0;
+ }
if (i >= NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS)
continue;
for_each_node(nid) {
+ struct batched_lruvec_stat *lstatc;
struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn;
+ long x;
pn = mem_cgroup_nodeinfo(memcg, nid);
- x = this_cpu_xchg(pn->lruvec_stat_cpu->count[i], 0);
- if (x)
+ lstatc = per_cpu_ptr(pn->lruvec_stat_cpu, cpu);
+
+ x = lstatc->count[i];
+ lstatc->count[i] = 0;
+
+ if (x) {
do {
atomic_long_add(x, &pn->lruvec_stat[i]);
} while ((pn = parent_nodeinfo(pn, nid)));
+ }
}
}
for (i = 0; i < NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS; i++) {
- long x;
-
- x = this_cpu_xchg(memcg->vmstats_percpu->events[i], 0);
- if (x)
- for (mi = memcg; mi; mi = parent_mem_cgroup(mi))
- atomic_long_add(x, &memcg->vmevents[i]);
+ if (statc->events[i]) {
+ count_memcg_events(memcg, i, statc->events[i]);
+ statc->events[i] = 0;
+ }
}
}