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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki committed dbd4ea78f00
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>