memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting

Now, page-stat-per-memcg is recorded into per page_cgroup flag by
duplicating page's status into the flag.  The reason is that memcg has a
feature to move a page from a group to another group and we have race
between "move" and "page stat accounting",

Under current logic, assume CPU-A and CPU-B.  CPU-A does "move" and CPU-B
does "page stat accounting".

When CPU-A goes 1st,

            CPU-A                           CPU-B
                                    update "struct page" info.
    move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg)
    see pc->flags
    copy page stat to new group
    overwrite pc->mem_cgroup.
    move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg)
                                    move_lock_mem_cgroup(mem)
                                    set pc->flags
                                    update page stat accounting
                                    move_unlock_mem_cgroup(mem)

stat accounting is guarded by move_lock_mem_cgroup() and "move" logic
(CPU-A) doesn't see changes in "struct page" information.

But it's costly to have the same information both in 'struct page' and
'struct page_cgroup'.  And, there is a potential problem.

For example, assume we have PG_dirty accounting in memcg.
PG_..is a flag for struct page.
PCG_ is a flag for struct page_cgroup.
(This is just an example. The same problem can be found in any
 kind of page stat accounting.)

	  CPU-A                               CPU-B
      TestSet PG_dirty
      (delay)                        TestClear PG_dirty
                                     if (TestClear(PCG_dirty))
                                          memcg->nr_dirty--
      if (TestSet(PCG_dirty))
          memcg->nr_dirty++

Here, memcg->nr_dirty = +1, this is wrong.  This race was reported by Greg
Thelen <gthelen@google.com>.  Now, only FILE_MAPPED is supported but
fortunately, it's serialized by page table lock and this is not real bug,
_now_,

If this potential problem is caused by having duplicated information in
struct page and struct page_cgroup, we may be able to fix this by using
original 'struct page' information.  But we'll have a problem in "move
account"

Assume we use only PG_dirty.

         CPU-A                   CPU-B
    TestSet PG_dirty
    (delay)                    move_lock_mem_cgroup()
                               if (PageDirty(page))
                                      new_memcg->nr_dirty++
                               pc->mem_cgroup = new_memcg;
                               move_unlock_mem_cgroup()
    move_lock_mem_cgroup()
    memcg = pc->mem_cgroup
    new_memcg->nr_dirty++

accounting information may be double-counted.  This was original reason to
have PCG_xxx flags but it seems PCG_xxx has another problem.

I think we need a bigger lock as

     move_lock_mem_cgroup(page)
     TestSetPageDirty(page)
     update page stats (without any checks)
     move_unlock_mem_cgroup(page)

This fixes both of problems and we don't have to duplicate page flag into
page_cgroup.  Please note: move_lock_mem_cgroup() is held only when there
are possibility of "account move" under the system.  So, in most path,
status update will go without atomic locks.

This patch introduces mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() and
mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat() both should be called at modifying
'struct page' information if memcg takes care of it.  as

     mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat()
     modify page information
     mem_cgroup_update_page_stat()
     => never check any 'struct page' info, just update counters.
     mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat().

This patch is slow because we need to call begin_update_page_stat()/
end_update_page_stat() regardless of accounted will be changed or not.  A
following patch adds an easy optimization and reduces the cost.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lock/locked/]
[hughd@google.com: fix deadlock by avoiding stat lock when anon]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 8afed2819b8..df1e180f6c3 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1910,32 +1910,59 @@ bool mem_cgroup_handle_oom(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t mask, int order)
  * If there is, we take a lock.
  */
 
+void __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
+				bool *locked, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+	struct page_cgroup *pc;
+
+	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
+again:
+	memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
+	if (unlikely(!memcg || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)))
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * If this memory cgroup is not under account moving, we don't
+	 * need to take move_lock_page_cgroup(). Because we already hold
+	 * rcu_read_lock(), any calls to move_account will be delayed until
+	 * rcu_read_unlock() if mem_cgroup_stealed() == true.
+	 */
+	if (!mem_cgroup_stealed(memcg))
+		return;
+
+	move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags);
+	if (memcg != pc->mem_cgroup || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
+		move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, flags);
+		goto again;
+	}
+	*locked = true;
+}
+
+void __mem_cgroup_end_update_page_stat(struct page *page, unsigned long *flags)
+{
+	struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
+
+	/*
+	 * It's guaranteed that pc->mem_cgroup never changes while
+	 * lock is held because a routine modifies pc->mem_cgroup
+	 * should take move_lock_page_cgroup().
+	 */
+	move_unlock_mem_cgroup(pc->mem_cgroup, flags);
+}
+
 void mem_cgroup_update_page_stat(struct page *page,
 				 enum mem_cgroup_page_stat_item idx, int val)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 	struct page_cgroup *pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
-	bool need_unlock = false;
 	unsigned long uninitialized_var(flags);
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
 		return;
-again:
-	rcu_read_lock();
+
 	memcg = pc->mem_cgroup;
 	if (unlikely(!memcg || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)))
-		goto out;
-	/* pc->mem_cgroup is unstable ? */
-	if (unlikely(mem_cgroup_stealed(memcg))) {
-		/* take a lock against to access pc->mem_cgroup */
-		move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
-		if (memcg != pc->mem_cgroup || !PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
-			move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
-			rcu_read_unlock();
-			goto again;
-		}
-		need_unlock = true;
-	}
+		return;
 
 	switch (idx) {
 	case MEMCG_NR_FILE_MAPPED:
@@ -1950,11 +1977,6 @@ again:
 	}
 
 	this_cpu_add(memcg->stat->count[idx], val);
-
-out:
-	if (unlikely(need_unlock))
-		move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg, &flags);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 /*