[Devel] [PATCH v2 1/7] memcg, slab: never try to merge memcg caches

[Vladimir Davydov]

Suppose we are creating memcg cache A that could be merged with cache B
of the same memcg. Since any memcg cache has the same parameters as its
parent cache, parent caches PA and PB of memcg caches A and B must be
mergeable too. That means PA was merged with PB on creation or vice
versa, i.e. PA = PB. From that it follows that A = B, and we couldn't
even try to create cache B, because it already exists - a contradiction.

So let's remove unused code responsible for merging memcg caches.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
---
 mm/slab.h        |   21 ++++-----------------
 mm/slab_common.c |    8 +++++---
 mm/slub.c        |   19 +++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 8184a7cde272..3045316b7c9d 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -55,12 +55,12 @@ extern void create_boot_cache(struct kmem_cache *, const char *name,
 struct mem_cgroup;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB
 struct kmem_cache *
-__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size,
-		   size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *));
+__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
+		   unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *));
 #else
 static inline struct kmem_cache *
-__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size,
-		   size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
+__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
+		   unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
 { return NULL; }
 #endif
 
@@ -119,13 +119,6 @@ static inline bool is_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
 	return !s->memcg_params || s->memcg_params->is_root_cache;
 }
 
-static inline bool cache_match_memcg(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
-				     struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	return (is_root_cache(cachep) && !memcg) ||
-				(cachep->memcg_params->memcg == memcg);
-}
-
 static inline void memcg_bind_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, int order)
 {
 	if (!is_root_cache(s))
@@ -204,12 +197,6 @@ static inline bool is_root_cache(struct kmem_cache *s)
 	return true;
 }
 
-static inline bool cache_match_memcg(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
-				     struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
-	return true;
-}
-
 static inline void memcg_bind_pages(struct kmem_cache *s, int order)
 {
 }
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 1ec3c619ba04..e77b51eb7347 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -200,9 +200,11 @@ kmem_cache_create_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size,
 	 */
 	flags &= CACHE_CREATE_MASK;
 
-	s = __kmem_cache_alias(memcg, name, size, align, flags, ctor);
-	if (s)
-		goto out_unlock;
+	if (!memcg) {
+		s = __kmem_cache_alias(name, size, align, flags, ctor);
+		if (s)
+			goto out_unlock;
+	}
 
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	s = kmem_cache_zalloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 7e3e0458bce4..8659e7184338 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -3692,9 +3692,8 @@ static int slab_unmergeable(struct kmem_cache *s)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, size_t size,
-		size_t align, unsigned long flags, const char *name,
-		void (*ctor)(void *))
+static struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(size_t size, size_t align,
+		unsigned long flags, const char *name, void (*ctor)(void *))
 {
 	struct kmem_cache *s;
 
@@ -3713,11 +3712,14 @@ static struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, size_t size,
 		if (slab_unmergeable(s))
 			continue;
 
+		if (!is_root_cache(s))
+			continue;
+
 		if (size > s->size)
 			continue;
 
 		if ((flags & SLUB_MERGE_SAME) != (s->flags & SLUB_MERGE_SAME))
-				continue;
+			continue;
 		/*
 		 * Check if alignment is compatible.
 		 * Courtesy of Adrian Drzewiecki
@@ -3728,21 +3730,18 @@ static struct kmem_cache *find_mergeable(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, size_t size,
 		if (s->size - size >= sizeof(void *))
 			continue;
 
-		if (!cache_match_memcg(s, memcg))
-			continue;
-
 		return s;
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
 
 struct kmem_cache *
-__kmem_cache_alias(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, const char *name, size_t size,
-		   size_t align, unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
+__kmem_cache_alias(const char *name, size_t size, size_t align,
+		   unsigned long flags, void (*ctor)(void *))
 {
 	struct kmem_cache *s;
 
-	s = find_mergeable(memcg, size, align, flags, name, ctor);
+	s = find_mergeable(size, align, flags, name, ctor);
 	if (s) {
 		s->refcount++;
 		/*
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