[Devel] [PATCH v11 14/15] memcg: reap dead memcgs upon global memory pressure

[Vladimir Davydov]

From: Glauber Costa <glommer at openvz.org>

When we delete kmem-enabled memcgs, they can still be zombieing
around for a while. The reason is that the objects may still be alive,
and we won't be able to delete them at destruction time.

The only entry point for that, though, are the shrinkers. The
shrinker interface, however, is not exactly tailored to our needs. It
could be a little bit better by using the API Dave Chinner proposed, but
it is still not ideal since we aren't really a count-and-scan event, but
more a one-off flush-all-you-can event that would have to abuse that
somehow.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer at openvz.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton at enomsg.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7bf4dc7..628ea0d 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -285,8 +285,16 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	/* thresholds for mem+swap usage. RCU-protected */
 	struct mem_cgroup_thresholds memsw_thresholds;
 
-	/* For oom notifier event fd */
-	struct list_head oom_notify;
+	union {
+		/* For oom notifier event fd */
+		struct list_head oom_notify;
+		/*
+		 * we can only trigger an oom event if the memcg is alive.
+		 * so we will reuse this field to hook the memcg in the list
+		 * of dead memcgs.
+		 */
+		struct list_head dead;
+	};
 
 	/*
 	 * Should we move charges of a task when a task is moved into this
@@ -336,6 +344,29 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	/* WARNING: nodeinfo must be the last member here */
 };
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) || defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP)
+static LIST_HEAD(dangling_memcgs);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+
+static inline void memcg_dangling_del(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	mutex_lock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+	list_del(&memcg->dead);
+	mutex_unlock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+}
+
+static inline void memcg_dangling_add(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&memcg->dead);
+	mutex_lock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+	list_add(&memcg->dead, &dangling_memcgs);
+	mutex_unlock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+}
+#else
+static inline void memcg_dangling_free(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
+static inline void memcg_dangling_add(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) {}
+#endif
+
 static size_t memcg_size(void)
 {
 	return sizeof(struct mem_cgroup) +
@@ -6352,6 +6383,41 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
+static void memcg_vmpressure_shrink_dead(void)
+{
+	struct memcg_cache_params *params, *tmp;
+	struct kmem_cache *cachep;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+
+	mutex_lock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+	list_for_each_entry(memcg, &dangling_memcgs, dead) {
+		mutex_lock(&memcg->slab_caches_mutex);
+		/* The element may go away as an indirect result of shrink */
+		list_for_each_entry_safe(params, tmp,
+					 &memcg->memcg_slab_caches, list) {
+			cachep = memcg_params_to_cache(params);
+			/*
+			 * the cpu_hotplug lock is taken in kmem_cache_create
+			 * outside the slab_caches_mutex manipulation. It will
+			 * be taken by kmem_cache_shrink to flush the cache.
+			 * So we need to drop the lock. It is all right because
+			 * the lock only protects elements moving in and out the
+			 * list.
+			 */
+			mutex_unlock(&memcg->slab_caches_mutex);
+			kmem_cache_shrink(cachep);
+			mutex_lock(&memcg->slab_caches_mutex);
+		}
+		mutex_unlock(&memcg->slab_caches_mutex);
+	}
+	mutex_unlock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
+}
+
+static void memcg_register_kmem_events(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
+{
+	vmpressure_register_kernel_event(css, memcg_vmpressure_shrink_dead);
+}
+
 static int memcg_init_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
 {
 	int ret;
@@ -6409,6 +6475,10 @@ static void kmem_cgroup_css_offline(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 		css_put(&memcg->css);
 }
 #else
+static inline void memcg_register_kmem_events(struct cgroup *cont)
+{
+}
+
 static int memcg_init_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
 {
 	return 0;
@@ -6745,8 +6815,10 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	struct mem_cgroup *parent = mem_cgroup_from_css(css_parent(css));
 	int error = 0;
 
-	if (!parent)
+	if (!parent) {
+		memcg_register_kmem_events(css);
 		return 0;
+	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&memcg_create_mutex);
 
@@ -6808,6 +6880,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	mem_cgroup_invalidate_reclaim_iterators(memcg);
 	mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(memcg);
 	mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches(memcg);
+	memcg_dangling_add(memcg);
 	vmpressure_cleanup(&memcg->vmpressure);
 }
 
@@ -6816,6 +6889,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
 
 	memcg_destroy_kmem(memcg);
+	memcg_dangling_del(memcg);
 	__mem_cgroup_free(memcg);
 }
 
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