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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2011-01-13 15:47:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:50 -0800
commitdbd4ea78f002df283c95d9774837041735fa1bf9 (patch)
treee709c6c5c026b1c230bb87ddcfe8415aaf255820 /mm
parent2a7106f2cb0768d00fe8c1eb42a754a7d8518f08 (diff)
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 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3d8a0c79dec..d888956a2cf 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1606,6 +1606,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
struct mem_cgroup *mem;
struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
bool need_unlock = false;
+ unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
if (unlikely(!pc))
return;
@@ -1617,7 +1618,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
/* pc->mem_cgroup is unstable ? */
if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_stealed(mem))) {
/* take a lock against to access pc->mem_cgroup */
- lock_page_cgroup(pc);
+ move_lock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags);
need_unlock = true;
mem = pc->mem_cgroup;
if (!mem || !PageCgroupUsed(pc))
@@ -1640,7 +1641,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
out:
if (unlikely(need_unlock))
- unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
+ move_unlock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags);
rcu_read_unlock();
return;
}
@@ -2211,9 +2212,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page_cgroup *pc,
struct mem_cgroup *from, struct mem_cgroup *to, bool uncharge)
{
int ret = -EINVAL;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
lock_page_cgroup(pc);
if (PageCgroupUsed(pc) && pc->mem_cgroup == from) {
+ move_lock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags);
__mem_cgroup_move_account(pc, from, to, uncharge);
+ move_unlock_page_cgroup(pc, &flags);
ret = 0;
}
unlock_page_cgroup(pc);