From a64ee9eab321223859332fde06b667bc6eb073e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:52:28 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: also test for skip accounting at the page allocation level The memory we used to hold the memcg arrays is currently accounted to the current memcg. But that creates a problem, because that memory can only be freed after the last user is gone. Our only way to know which is the last user, is to hook up to freeing time, but the fact that we still have some in flight kmallocs will prevent freeing to happen. I believe therefore to be just easier to account this memory as global overhead. This patch (of 2): Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such check at memcg_kmem_newpage_charge, since direct calls to the page allocator that are marked with GFP_KMEMCG only happen outside memcg core. We are mostly concerned with cache allocations and by having this test at memcg_kmem_get_cache we are already able to relay the allocation to the root cache and bypass the memcg caches altogether. There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from the page allocator. Therefore, the following sequence, when backed by the SLUB allocator: memcg_stop_kmem_account(); kmalloc() memcg_resume_kmem_account(); would effectively ignore the fact that we should skip accounting, since it will drive us directly to this function without passing through the cache selector memcg_kmem_get_cache. Such large allocations are extremely rare but can happen, for instance, for the cache arrays. This was never a problem in practice, because we weren't skipping accounting for the cache arrays. All the allocations we were skipping were fairly small. However, the fact that we were not skipping those allocations are a problem and can prevent the memcgs from going away. As we fix that, we need to make sure that the fix will also work with the SLUB allocator. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa Reported-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/memcontrol.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 2b7cd24d4cda..06a595fd6400 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3637,6 +3637,34 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order) int ret; *_memcg = NULL; + + /* + * Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg + * internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such + * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are marked + * with GFP_KMEMCG only happen outside memcg core. We are mostly + * concerned with cache allocations, and by having this test at + * memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able to relay the allocation to + * the root cache and bypass the memcg cache altogether. + * + * There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create + * large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from + * the page allocator. Therefore, the following sequence when backed by + * the SLUB allocator: + * + * memcg_stop_kmem_account(); + * kmalloc() + * memcg_resume_kmem_account(); + * + * would effectively ignore the fact that we should skip accounting, + * since it will drive us directly to this function without passing + * through the cache selector memcg_kmem_get_cache. Such large + * allocations are extremely rare but can happen, for instance, for the + * cache arrays. We bring this test here. + */ + if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account) + return true; + memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm); /* -- 2.39.5