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2020-04-02mm: vmpressure: use mem_cgroup_is_root APIYang Shi
Use mem_cgroup_is_root() API to check if memcg is root memcg instead of open coding. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581398649-125989-2-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-02mm: vmpressure: don't need call kfree if kstrndup failsYang Shi
When kstrndup fails, no memory was allocated and we can exit directly. [david@redhat.com: reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581398649-125989-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-10-07mm/vmpressure.c: fix a signedness bug in vmpressure_register_event()Dan Carpenter
The "mode" and "level" variables are enums and in this context GCC will treat them as unsigned ints so the error handling is never triggered. I also removed the bogus initializer because it isn't required any more and it's sort of confusing. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reduce implicit and explicit typecasting] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value, add comment, per Matthew] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190925110449.GO3264@mwanda Fixes: 3cadfa2b9497 ("mm/vmpressure.c: convert to use match_string() helper") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-06-19treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500Thomas Gleixner
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation # extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-07mm/vmpressure.c: convert to use match_string() helperAndy Shevchenko
The new helper returns index of the matching string in an array. We are going to use it here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503203206.44046-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-07mm/vmpressure.c: use kstrndup instead of kmalloc+strncpyAndy Shevchenko
Using kstrndup() simplifies the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180503201807.24941-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-10mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification supportDavid Rientjes
By default, vmpressure events are not pass-through, i.e. they propagate up through the memcg hierarchy until an event notifier is found for any threshold level. This presents a difficulty when a thread waiting on a read(2) for a vmpressure event cannot distinguish between local memory pressure and memory pressure in a descendant memcg, especially when that thread may not control the memcg hierarchy. Consider a user-controlled child memcg with a smaller limit than a top-level memcg controlled by the "Activity Manager" specified in Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt. It may register for memory pressure notification for descendant memcgs to make a policy decision: oom kill a low priority job, increase the limit, decrease other limits, etc. If it registers for memory pressure notification on the top-level memcg, it currently cannot distinguish between memory pressure in its own memcg or a descendant memcg, which is user-controlled. Conversely, if a user registers for memory pressure notification on their own descendant memcg, the Activity Manager does not receive any pressure notification for that child memcg hierarchy. Vmpressure events are not received for ancestor memcgs if the memcg experiencing pressure have notifiers registered, perhaps outside the knowledge of the thread waiting on read(2) at the top level. Both of these are consequences of vmpressure notification not being pass-through. This implements a pass-through behavior for vmpressure events. When writing to control.event_control, vmpressure event handlers may optionally specify a mode. There are two new modes: - "hierarchy": always propagate memory pressure events up the hierarchy regardless if descendant memcgs have their own notifiers registered, and - "local": only receive notifications when the memcg for which the event is registered experiences memory pressure. Of course, processes may register for one notification of "low,local", for example, and another for "low". If no mode is specified, the current behavior is maintained for backwards compatibility. See the change to Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt for full specification. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: free the same pointer we allocated] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613191820.GA20003@elgon.mountain Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1705311421320.8946@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-17mm: correct the comment when reclaimed pages exceed the scanned pageszhongjiang
Commit e1587a494540 ("mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflow") declared that reclaimed pages exceed the scanned pages due to the thp reclaim. That is incorrect because THP will be spilt to normal page and loop again, which will result in the scanned pages increment. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496824266-25235-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhongjiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24mm: vmpressure: fix sending wrong events on underflowVinayak Menon
At the end of a window period, if the reclaimed pages is greater than scanned, an unsigned underflow can result in a huge pressure value and thus a critical event. Reclaimed pages is found to go higher than scanned because of the addition of reclaimed slab pages to reclaimed in shrink_node without a corresponding increment to scanned pages. Minchan Kim mentioned that this can also happen in the case of a THP page where the scanned is 1 and reclaimed could be 512. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486641577-11685-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Shiraz Hashim <shashim@codeaurora.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-02-03mm/vmpressure.c: fix subtree pressure detectionVladimir Davydov
When vmpressure is called for the entire subtree under pressure we mistakenly use vmpressure->scanned instead of vmpressure->tree_scanned when checking if vmpressure work is to be scheduled. This results in suppressing all vmpressure events in the legacy cgroup hierarchy. Fix it. Fixes: 8e8ae645249b ("mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressure") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14memcg: avoid vmpressure oops when memcg disabledHugh Dickins
A CONFIG_MEMCG=y kernel booted with "cgroup_disable=memory" crashes on a NULL memcg (but non-NULL root_mem_cgroup) when vmpressure kicks in. Here's the patch I use to avoid that, but you might prefer a test on mem_cgroup_disabled() somewhere. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-14mm: memcontrol: hook up vmpressure to socket pressureJohannes Weiner
Let the networking stack know when a memcg is under reclaim pressure so that it can clamp its transmit windows accordingly. Whenever the reclaim efficiency of a cgroup's LRU lists drops low enough for a MEDIUM or HIGH vmpressure event to occur, assert a pressure state in the socket and tcp memory code that tells it to curb consumption growth from sockets associated with said control group. Traditionally, vmpressure reports for the entire subtree of a memcg under pressure, which drops useful information on the individual groups reclaimed. However, it's too late to change the userinterface, so add a second reporting mode that reports on the level of reclaim instead of at the level of pressure, and use that report for sockets. vmpressure events are naturally edge triggered, so for hysteresis assert socket pressure for a second to allow for subsequent vmpressure events to occur before letting the socket code return to normal. This will likely need finetuning for a wider variety of workloads, but for now stick to the vmpressure presets and keep hysteresis simple. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-02mm/vmpressure.c: fix race in vmpressure_work_fn()Andrew Morton
In some android devices, there will be a "divide by zero" exception. vmpr->scanned could be zero before spin_lock(&vmpr->sr_lock). Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88051 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: neaten] Reported-by: ji_ang <ji_ang@163.com> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-03arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includesTejun Heo
arch/arm/mach-tegra/pm.c, kernel/power/console.c and mm/vmpressure.c were somehow getting slab.h indirectly through cgroup.h which in turn was getting it indirectly through xattr.h. A scheduled cgroup change drops xattr.h inclusion from cgroup.h and breaks compilation of these three files. Add explicit slab.h includes to the three files. A pending cgroup patch depends on this change and it'd be great if this can be routed through cgroup/for-3.14-fixes branch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> Cc: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2013-11-22memcg: make cgroup_event deal with mem_cgroup instead of cgroup_subsys_stateTejun Heo
cgroup_event is now memcg specific. Replace cgroup_event->css with ->memcg and convert [un]register_event() callbacks to take mem_cgroup pointer instead of cgroup_subsys_state one. This simplifies the code slightly and makes css_to_vmpressure() unnecessary which is removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
2013-11-22memcg: remove cgroup_event->cftTejun Heo
The only use of cgroup_event->cft is distinguishing "usage_in_bytes" and "memsw.usgae_in_bytes" for mem_cgroup_usage_[un]register_event(), which can be done by adding an explicit argument to the function and implementing two wrappers so that the two cases can be distinguished from the function alone. Remove cgroup_event->cft and the related code including [un]register_events() methods. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
2013-09-03Merge branch 'for-3.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on the cgroup front. Most changes aren't visible to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the planned unified hierarchy. - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's. Because controllers (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of a cgroup. Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed. Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup core and controllers. These assumptions are gradually removed, which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path. Note that decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these changes and the patchset is pending for the next window. - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is only used by memcg. It is overly complex trying to achieve high flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best. Going forward, new events will simply generate file modified event and the existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg. This pull request contains prepatory patches for such change. - Various fixes and cleanups" Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun. * 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits) cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id() cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp() cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control() cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id() cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css() cgroup: factor out kill_css() cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css() cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[] ...
2013-08-08cgroup: make cftype->[un]register_event() deal with cgroup_subsys_state ↵Tejun Heo
instead of cgroup cgroup is in the process of converting to css (cgroup_subsys_state) from cgroup as the principal subsystem interface handle. This is mostly to prepare for the unified hierarchy support where css's will be created and destroyed dynamically but also helps cleaning up subsystem implementations as css is usually what they are interested in anyway. cftype->[un]register_event() is among the remaining couple interfaces which still use struct cgroup. Convert it to cgroup_subsys_state. The conversion is mostly mechanical and removes the last users of mem_cgroup_from_cont() and cg_to_vmpressure(), which are removed. v2: indentation update as suggested by Li Zefan. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
2013-08-08cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in file methodsTejun Heo
cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup. Please see the previous commit which converts the subsystem methods for rationale. This patch converts all cftype file operations to take @css instead of @cgroup. cftypes for the cgroup core files don't have their subsytem pointer set. These will automatically use the dummy_css added by the previous patch and can be converted the same way. Most subsystem conversions are straight forwards but there are some interesting ones. * freezer: update_if_frozen() is also converted to take @css instead of @cgroup for consistency. This will make the code look simpler too once iterators are converted to use css. * memory/vmpressure: mem_cgroup_from_css() needs to be exported to vmpressure while mem_cgroup_from_cont() can be made static. Updated accordingly. * cpu: cgroup_tg() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * cpuacct: cgroup_ca() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * hugetlb: hugetlb_cgroup_form_cgroup() doesn't have any user left. Removed. * net_cls: cgrp_cls_state() doesn't have any user left. Removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-08-08cgroup: s/cgroup_subsys_state/cgroup_css/ s/task_subsys_state/task_css/Tejun Heo
The names of the two struct cgroup_subsys_state accessors - cgroup_subsys_state() and task_subsys_state() - are somewhat awkward. The former clashes with the type name and the latter doesn't even indicate it's somehow related to cgroup. We're about to revamp large portion of cgroup API, so, let's rename them so that they're less awkward. Most per-controller usages of the accessors are localized in accessor wrappers and given the amount of scheduled changes, this isn't gonna add any noticeable headache. Rename cgroup_subsys_state() to cgroup_css() and task_subsys_state() to task_css(). This patch is pure rename. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
2013-07-31vmpressure: make sure there are no events queued after memcg is offlinedMichal Hocko
vmpressure is called synchronously from reclaim where the target_memcg is guaranteed to be alive but the eventfd is signaled from the work queue context. This means that memcg (along with vmpressure structure which is embedded into it) might go away while the work item is pending which would result in use-after-release bug. We have two possible ways how to fix this. Either vmpressure pins memcg before it schedules vmpr->work and unpin it in vmpressure_work_fn or explicitely flush the work item from the css_offline context (as suggested by Tejun). This patch implements the later one and it introduces vmpressure_cleanup which flushes the vmpressure work queue item item. It hooks into mem_cgroup_css_offline after the memcg itself is cleaned up. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31vmpressure: do not check for pending work to prevent from new workMichal Hocko
because it is racy and it doesn't give us much anyway as schedule_work handles this case already. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-31vmpressure: change vmpressure::sr_lock to spinlockMichal Hocko
There is nothing that can sleep inside critical sections protected by this lock and those sections are really small so there doesn't make much sense to use mutex for them. Change the log to a spinlock Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29memcg: add memory.pressure_level eventsAnton Vorontsov
With this patch userland applications that want to maintain the interactivity/memory allocation cost can use the pressure level notifications. The levels are defined like this: The "low" level means that the system is reclaiming memory for new allocations. Monitoring this reclaiming activity might be useful for maintaining cache level. Upon notification, the program (typically "Activity Manager") might analyze vmstat and act in advance (i.e. prematurely shutdown unimportant services). The "medium" level means that the system is experiencing medium memory pressure, the system might be making swap, paging out active file caches, etc. Upon this event applications may decide to further analyze vmstat/zoneinfo/memcg or internal memory usage statistics and free any resources that can be easily reconstructed or re-read from a disk. The "critical" level means that the system is actively thrashing, it is about to out of memory (OOM) or even the in-kernel OOM killer is on its way to trigger. Applications should do whatever they can to help the system. It might be too late to consult with vmstat or any other statistics, so it's advisable to take an immediate action. The events are propagated upward until the event is handled, i.e. the events are not pass-through. Here is what this means: for example you have three cgroups: A->B->C. Now you set up an event listener on cgroups A, B and C, and suppose group C experiences some pressure. In this situation, only group C will receive the notification, i.e. groups A and B will not receive it. This is done to avoid excessive "broadcasting" of messages, which disturbs the system and which is especially bad if we are low on memory or thrashing. So, organize the cgroups wisely, or propagate the events manually (or, ask us to implement the pass-through events, explaining why would you need them.) Performance wise, the memory pressure notifications feature itself is lightweight and does not require much of bookkeeping, in contrast to the rest of memcg features. Unfortunately, as of current memcg implementation, pages accounting is an inseparable part and cannot be turned off. The good news is that there are some efforts[1] to improve the situation; plus, implementing the same, fully API-compatible[2] interface for CONFIG_MEMCG=n case (e.g. embedded) is also a viable option, so it will not require any changes on the userland side. [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cgroups/6291 [2] http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/454 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CGROPUPS=n warnings] Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Leonid Moiseichuk <leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>