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[PATCH v4 17/25] skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions [message #46835 is a reply to message #46818] Mon, 18 June 2012 10:28 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Glauber Costa is currently offline  Glauber Costa
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Registered: October 2011
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This patch creates a mechanism that skip memcg allocations during
certain pieces of our core code. It basically works in the same way
as preempt_disable()/preempt_enable(): By marking a region under
which all allocations will be accounted to the root memcg.

We need this to prevent races in early cache creation, when we
allocate data using caches that are not necessarily created already.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
mm/memcontrol.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 81a173c..0761dda 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1613,6 +1613,7 @@ struct task_struct {
unsigned long nr_pages; /* uncharged usage */
unsigned long memsw_nr_pages; /* uncharged mem+swap usage */
} memcg_batch;
+ unsigned int memcg_kmem_skip_account;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT
atomic_t ptrace_bp_refcnt;
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 324e550..233d3bc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -479,6 +479,22 @@ struct cg_proto *tcp_proto_cgroup(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_proto_cgroup);
#endif /* CONFIG_INET */

+static void memcg_stop_kmem_account(void)
+{
+ if (!current->mm)
+ return;
+
+ current->memcg_kmem_skip_account++;
+}
+
+static void memcg_resume_kmem_account(void)
+{
+ if (!current->mm)
+ return;
+
+ current->memcg_kmem_skip_account--;
+}
+
static char *mem_cgroup_cache_name(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *cachep)
{
char *name;
@@ -555,7 +571,9 @@ static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
if (new_cachep)
goto out;

+ memcg_stop_kmem_account();
new_cachep = kmem_cache_dup(memcg, cachep);
+ memcg_resume_kmem_account();

if (new_cachep == NULL) {
new_cachep = cachep;
@@ -646,7 +664,9 @@ static void memcg_create_cache_enqueue(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
if (!css_tryget(&memcg->css))
return;

+ memcg_stop_kmem_account();
cw = kmalloc(sizeof(struct create_work), GFP_NOWAIT);
+ memcg_resume_kmem_account();
if (cw == NULL) {
css_put(&memcg->css);
return;
@@ -681,6 +701,9 @@ struct kmem_cache *__mem_cgroup_get_kmem_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
int idx;
struct task_struct *p;

+ if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account)
+ return cachep;
+
if (cachep->memcg_params.memcg)
return cachep;

@@ -713,6 +736,9 @@ bool __mem_cgroup_new_kmem_page(gfp_t gfp, void *_handle, int order)
struct task_struct *p;

handle = NULL;
+ if (current->memcg_kmem_skip_account)
+ return true;
+
rcu_read_lock();
p = rcu_dereference(current->mm->owner);
memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(p);
--
1.7.10.2
 
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