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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-01-14 02:47:38 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-14 04:32:50 +0300
commitdbd4ea78f002df283c95d9774837041735fa1bf9 (patch)
treee709c6c5c026b1c230bb87ddcfe8415aaf255820 /include
parent2a7106f2cb0768d00fe8c1eb42a754a7d8518f08 (diff)
downloadlinux-dbd4ea78f002df283c95d9774837041735fa1bf9.tar.xz
memcg: add lock to synchronize page accounting and migration
Introduce a new bit spin lock, PCG_MOVE_LOCK, to synchronize the page accounting and migration code. This reworks the locking scheme of _update_stat() and _move_account() by adding new lock bit PCG_MOVE_LOCK, which is always taken under IRQ disable. 1. If pages are being migrated from a memcg, then updates to that memcg page statistics are protected by grabbing PCG_MOVE_LOCK using move_lock_page_cgroup(). In an upcoming commit, memcg dirty page accounting will be updating memcg page accounting (specifically: num writeback pages) from IRQ context (softirq). Avoid a deadlocking nested spin lock attempt by disabling irq on the local processor when grabbing the PCG_MOVE_LOCK. 2. lock for update_page_stat is used only for avoiding race with move_account(). So, IRQ awareness of lock_page_cgroup() itself is not a problem. The problem is between mem_cgroup_update_page_stat() and mem_cgroup_move_account_page(). Trade-off: * Changing lock_page_cgroup() to always disable IRQ (or local_bh) has some impacts on performance and I think it's bad to disable IRQ when it's not necessary. * adding a new lock makes move_account() slower. Score is here. Performance Impact: moving a 8G anon process. Before: real 0m0.792s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.780s After: real 0m0.854s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.842s This score is bad but planned patches for optimization can reduce this impact. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page_cgroup.h31
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
index fdb5a92b5ac7..5b0c971d7cae 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
@@ -35,15 +35,18 @@ struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page);
enum {
/* flags for mem_cgroup */
- PCG_LOCK, /* page cgroup is locked */
+ PCG_LOCK, /* Lock for pc->mem_cgroup and following bits. */
PCG_CACHE, /* charged as cache */
PCG_USED, /* this object is in use. */
- PCG_ACCT_LRU, /* page has been accounted for */
+ PCG_MIGRATION, /* under page migration */
+ /* flags for mem_cgroup and file and I/O status */
+ PCG_MOVE_LOCK, /* For race between move_account v.s. following bits */
PCG_FILE_MAPPED, /* page is accounted as "mapped" */
PCG_FILE_DIRTY, /* page is dirty */
PCG_FILE_WRITEBACK, /* page is under writeback */
PCG_FILE_UNSTABLE_NFS, /* page is NFS unstable */
- PCG_MIGRATION, /* under page migration */
+ /* No lock in page_cgroup */
+ PCG_ACCT_LRU, /* page has been accounted for (under lru_lock) */
};
#define TESTPCGFLAG(uname, lname) \
@@ -117,6 +120,10 @@ static inline enum zone_type page_cgroup_zid(struct page_cgroup *pc)
static inline void lock_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc)
{
+ /*
+ * Don't take this lock in IRQ context.
+ * This lock is for pc->mem_cgroup, USED, CACHE, MIGRATION
+ */
bit_spin_lock(PCG_LOCK, &pc->flags);
}
@@ -130,6 +137,24 @@ static inline int page_is_cgroup_locked(struct page_cgroup *pc)
return bit_spin_is_locked(PCG_LOCK, &pc->flags);
}
+static inline void move_lock_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc,
+ unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ /*
+ * We know updates to pc->flags of page cache's stats are from both of
+ * usual context or IRQ context. Disable IRQ to avoid deadlock.
+ */
+ local_irq_save(*flags);
+ bit_spin_lock(PCG_MOVE_LOCK, &pc->flags);
+}
+
+static inline void move_unlock_page_cgroup(struct page_cgroup *pc,
+ unsigned long *flags)
+{
+ bit_spin_unlock(PCG_MOVE_LOCK, &pc->flags);
+ local_irq_restore(*flags);
+}
+
#else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR */
struct page_cgroup;