[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] mm/mem_cgroup_iter: Don't bother saving/checking 'dead_count' anymore

[Vasily Averin]

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after rh7-3.10.0-1160.15.2.vz7.173.1
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commit b010adf217a409afd4715ff9982e16abe076fcc9
Author: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 3 09:26:27 2021 +0300

    mm/mem_cgroup_iter: Don't bother saving/checking 'dead_count' anymore
    
    Patch-set description:
    May thanks to Kirill Tkhai for his bright ideas and review!
    
    Problem description from the user point of view:
      * the Node is slow
      * the Node has a lot of free RAM
      * the Node has a lot of swapin/swapout
      * kswapd is always running
    
    Problem in a nutshell from technical point of view:
      * kswapd is looping in shrink_zone() inside the loop
          do {} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(root, memcg, &reclaim)));
        (and never goes trough the outer loop)
      * there are a quite a number of memory cgroups of the Node (~1000)
      * some cgroups are hard to reclaim (reclaim may take ~3 seconds),
        this is because of very busy disk due to permanent swapin/swapout
      * mem_cgroup_iter() does not have success scanning all cgroups
        in a row, it restarts from the root cgroup one time after
        another (after different number of cgroups scanned)
    
    Q: Why does mem_cgroup_iter() restart from the root memcg?
    A: Because it is invalidated once some memory cgroup is
       destroyed on the Node.
       Note: ANY memory cgroup destroy on the Node leads to iter
       restart.
    
    The following patchset solves this problem in the following way:
    there is no need to restart the iter until we see the iter has
    the position which is exactly the memory cgroup being destroyed.
    
    The patchset ensures the iter->last_visited is NULL-ified on
    invalidation and thus restarts only in the unlikely case when
    the iter points to the memcg being destroyed.
    
    Testing: i've tested this patchset using modified kernel which breaks
    the memcg iterator in case of global reclaim with probability of 2%.
    
    3 kernels have been tested: "release", KASAN-only, "debug" kernels.
    Each worked for 12 hours, no issues, from 12000 to 26000 races were
    caught during this period (i.e. dying memcg was found in some iterator
    and wiped).
    
    The testing scenario is documented in the jira issue.
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-123655
    +++ Current patch description:
    As we've enhanced mem_cgroup_iter_invalidate() to NULL-ify
    'last_visited' if it stored dying cgroups, we can be sure
    iter->last_visited always contain valid pointer to memcg
    (or NULL surely).
    
    So just skip extra check iter->last_dead_count vs root->dead_count,
    it's not needed anymore.
    
    Note: the patch is prepared as small as possible - for review simplicity.
    Cleanup patch will follow.
    
    https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-123655
    
    Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>
    
    Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2c20655..57845eb 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1655,9 +1655,6 @@ mem_cgroup_iter_load(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
 	 * offlining.  The RCU lock ensures the object won't be
 	 * released, tryget will fail if we lost the race.
 	 */
-	*sequence = atomic_read(&root->dead_count);
-	if (iter->last_dead_count == *sequence) {
-		smp_rmb();
 		position = rcu_dereference(iter->last_visited);
 
 		/*
@@ -1670,7 +1667,6 @@ mem_cgroup_iter_load(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
 				!css_tryget(&position->css))
 
 			position = NULL;
-	}
 	return position;
 }
 
@@ -1686,8 +1682,6 @@ static void mem_cgroup_iter_update(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
 	 * 'last_visited' is NULLed.
 	 */
 	rcu_assign_pointer(iter->last_visited, new_position);
-	smp_wmb();
-	iter->last_dead_count = sequence;
 
 	/* root reference counting symmetric to mem_cgroup_iter_load */
 	if (last_visited && last_visited != root)