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2009-01-15memcg: fix mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_pageDaisuke Nishimura
In case of swapin, a new page is added to lru before it is charged, so page->pc->mem_cgroup points to NULL or last mem_cgroup the page was charged before. In the latter case, if the mem_cgroup has already freed by rmdir, the area pointed to by page->pc->mem_cgroup may have invalid data. Actually, I saw general protection fault. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index1/shared_cpu_map CPU 4 Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp ipv6 autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod rfkill input_polldev sbs sbshc battery ac lp sg ide_cd_mod cdrom button serio_raw acpi_memhotplug parport_pc e1000 rtc_cmos parport rtc_core rtc_lib i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp pcspkr ata_piix libata megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd [last unloaded: microcode] Pid: 26038, comm: page01 Tainted: G W 2.6.28-rc9-mm1-mmotm-2008-12-22-16-14-f2ab3dea #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8028e710>] [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42 RSP: 0000:ffff8801ee457da8 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 32353438312021c8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 32353438312021c8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800cb0b1000 RDI: ffff8801164d1d28 RBP: ffff880110002cb8 R08: ffff88010f2eae23 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffff8800bc514b00 R11: ffff880110002c00 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88000f484100 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00000000001200d2 FS: 00007f8a261726f0(0000) GS:ffff88010f2eaa80(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007f8a25d22000 CR3: 00000001ef18c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process page01 (pid: 26038, threadinfo ffff8801ee456000, task ffff8800b585b960) Stack: ffffe200071ee568 ffff880110001f00 0000000000000000 ffffffff8028ea17 ffff88000f484100 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 00007f8a25d22000 ffff8800bc514b00 ffffffff8028ec34 0000000000000000 0000000000016fd8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8028ea17>] ? ____pagevec_lru_add+0xc1/0x13c [<ffffffff8028ec34>] ? drain_cpu_pagevecs+0x36/0x89 [<ffffffff802a4f8c>] ? swapin_readahead+0x78/0x98 [<ffffffff8029a37a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x3d9/0x741 [<ffffffff804da654>] ? do_page_fault+0x3ce/0x78c [<ffffffff804d7a42>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff804d860f>] ? page_fault+0x1f/0x30 Code: cc 55 48 8d af b8 0d 00 00 48 89 f7 53 89 d3 e8 39 85 02 00 48 63 d3 48 ff 44 d5 10 45 85 e4 74 05 48 ff 44 d5 00 48 85 c0 74 0e <48> ff 44 d0 10 45 85 e4 74 04 48 ff 04 d0 5b 5d 41 5c c3 41 54 RIP [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42 RSP <ffff8801ee457da8> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15alpha: fix vmalloc breakageIvan Kokshaysky
On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very early in the boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work and so on, see arch/alpha/mm/init.c). For old VM allocator, we just manually placed a vm_struct onto the global vmlist and this worked for ages. Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc on alpha defunct. This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded check (per Johannes)] Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special casesHeiko Carstens
System calls with an unsigned long long argument can't be converted with the standard wrappers since that would include a cast to long, which in turn means that we would lose the upper 32 bit on 32 bit architectures. Also semctl can't use the standard wrapper since it has a 'union' parameter. So we handle them as special case and add some extra wrappers instead. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a longHeiko Carstens
Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-13x86 PAT: change track_pfn_vma_new to take pgprot_t pointer paramvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: cleanup Change the protection parameter for track_pfn_vma_new() into a pgprot_t pointer. Subsequent patch changes the x86 PAT handling to return a compatible memtype in pgprot_t, if what was requested cannot be allowed due to conflicts. No fuctionality change in this patch. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-13x86 PAT: remove PFNMAP type on track_pfn_vma_new() errorvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: fix (harmless) double-free of memtype entries and avoid warning On track_pfn_vma_new() failure, reset the vm_flags so that there will be no second cleanup happening when upper level routines call unmap_vmas(). This patch fixes part of the bug reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123108883716357&w=2 Specifically the error message: X:5010 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d0101000 Is due to multiple frees on error path, will not happen with the patch below. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-12lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotationPeter Zijlstra
Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while holding the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't get paged out, therefore we'll never actually fault, and the might_fault() annotations will generate false positives. Reported-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
2009-01-08cgroups: use hierarchy_mutex in memory controllerPaul Menage
Update the memory controller to use its hierarchy_mutex rather than calling cgroup_lock() to protected against cgroup_mkdir()/cgroup_rmdir() from occurring in its hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix shmem's swap accountingKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, you can see following even when swap accounting is enabled. 1. Create Group 01, and 02. 2. allocate a "file" on tmpfs by a task under 01. 3. swap out the "file" (by memory pressure) 4. Read "file" from a task in group 02. 5. the charge of "file" is moved to group 02. This is not ideal behavior. This is because SwapCache which was loaded by read-ahead is not taken into account.. This is a patch to fix shmem's swapcache behavior. - remove mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin(). - Add SwapCache handler routine to mem_cgroup_cache_charge(). By this, shmem's file cache is charged at add_to_page_cache() with GFP_NOWAIT. - pass the page of swapcache to shrink_mem_cgroup. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix LRU accounting for SwapCacheKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, a page can be deleted from SwapCache while do_swap_page(). memcg-fix-swap-accounting-leak-v3.patch handles that, but, LRU handling is still broken. (above behavior broke assumption of memcg-synchronized-lru patch.) This patch is a fix for LRU handling (especially for per-zone counters). At charging SwapCache, - Remove page_cgroup from LRU if it's not used. - Add page cgroup to LRU if it's not linked to. Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: use css_tryget in memcgKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
From:KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> css_tryget() newly is added and we can know css is alive or not and get refcnt of css in very safe way. ("alive" here means "rmdir/destroy" is not called.) This patch replaces css_get() to css_tryget(), where I cannot explain why css_get() is safe. And removes memcg->obsolete flag. Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix double free and make refcnt saneKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
1. Fix double-free BUG in error route of mem_cgroup_create(). mem_cgroup_free() itself frees per-zone-info. 2. Making refcnt of memcg simple. Add 1 refcnt at creation and call free when refcnt goes down to 0. Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix swap accounting leakKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Fix swapin charge operation of memcg. Now, memcg has hooks to swap-out operation and checks SwapCache is really unused or not. That check depends on contents of struct page. I.e. If PageAnon(page) && page_mapped(page), the page is recoginized as still-in-use. Now, reuse_swap_page() calles delete_from_swap_cache() before establishment of any rmap. Then, in followinig sequence (Page fault with WRITE) try_charge() (charge += PAGESIZE) commit_charge() (Check page_cgroup is used or not..) reuse_swap_page() -> delete_from_swapcache() -> mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache() (charge -= PAGESIZE) ...... New charge is uncharged soon.... To avoid this, move commit_charge() after page_mapcount() goes up to 1. By this, try_charge() (usage += PAGESIZE) reuse_swap_page() (may usage -= PAGESIZE if PCG_USED is set) commit_charge() (If page_cgroup is not marked as PCG_USED, add new charge.) Accounting will be correct. Changelog (v2) -> (v3) - fixed invalid charge to swp_entry==0. - updated documentation. Changelog (v1) -> (v2) - fixed comment. [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: swap accounting leak doc fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: change try_to_free_pages to hierarchical_reclaimDaisuke Nishimura
mem_cgroup_hierarchicl_reclaim() works properly even when !use_hierarchy now (by memcg-hierarchy-avoid-unnecessary-reclaim.patch), so, instead of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(), it should be used in many cases. The only exception is force_empty. The group has no children in this case. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: avoid deadlock caused by race between oom and cpuset_attachDaisuke Nishimura
mpol_rebind_mm(), which can be called from cpuset_attach(), does down_write(mm->mmap_sem). This means down_write(mm->mmap_sem) can be called under cgroup_mutex. OTOH, page fault path does down_read(mm->mmap_sem) and calls mem_cgroup_try_charge_xxx(), which may eventually calls mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(). And mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() calls cgroup_lock(). This means cgroup_lock() can be called under down_read(mm->mmap_sem). If those two paths race, deadlock can happen. This patch avoid this deadlock by: - remove cgroup_lock() from mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(). - define new mutex (memcg_tasklist) and serialize mem_cgroup_move_task() (->attach handler of memory cgroup) and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: remove mem_cgroup_try_chargeDaisuke Nishimura
After previous patch, mem_cgroup_try_charge is not used by anyone, so we can remove it. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: don't trigger oom at page migrationDaisuke Nishimura
I think triggering OOM at mem_cgroup_prepare_migration would be just a bit overkill. Returning -ENOMEM would be enough for mem_cgroup_prepare_migration. The caller would handle the case anyway. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: show real limit under hierarchy modeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Show "real" limit of memcg. This helps my debugging and maybe useful for users. While testing hierarchy like this mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory mkdir /cgroup/A set use_hierarchy==1 to "A" mkdir /cgroup/A/01 mkdir /cgroup/A/01/02 mkdir /cgroup/A/01/03 mkdir /cgroup/A/01/03/04 mkdir /cgroup/A/08 mkdir /cgroup/A/08/01 .... and set each own limit to them, "real" limit of each memcg is unclear. This patch shows real limit by checking all ancestors. Changelog: (v1) -> (v2) - remove "if" and use "min(a,b)" Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix calculation of active_ratioKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, inactive_ratio of memcg is calculated at setting limit. because page_alloc.c does so and current implementation is straightforward porting. However, memcg introduced hierarchy feature recently. In hierarchy restriction, memory limit is not only decided memory.limit_in_bytes of current cgroup, but also parent limit and sibling memory usage. Then, The optimal inactive_ratio is changed frequently. So, everytime calculation is better. Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: swappinessKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness can change swappiness ratio for global reclaim. However, memcg reclaim doesn't have tuning parameter for itself. In general, the optimal swappiness depend on workload. (e.g. hpc workload need to low swappiness than the others.) Then, per cgroup swappiness improve administrator tunability. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: protect prev_priorityKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, mem_cgroup doesn't have own lock and almost its member doesn't need. (e.g. mem_cgroup->info is protected by zone lock, mem_cgroup->stat is per cpu variable) However, there is one explict exception. mem_cgroup->prev_priorit need lock, but doesn't protect. Luckly, this is NOT bug because prev_priority isn't used for current reclaim code. However, we plan to use prev_priority future again. Therefore, fixing is better. In addition, we plan to reuse this lock for another member. Then "reclaim_param_lock" name is better than "prev_priority_lock". Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: rename scan global lruKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Rename scan_global_lru() to scanning_global_lru(). Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: show reclaim statKOSAKI Motohiro
Add the following four fields to memory.stat file: - inactive_ratio - recent_rotated_anon - recent_rotated_file - recent_scanned_anon - recent_scanned_file Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: remove mem_cgroup_cal_reclaim()KOSAKI Motohiro
Now, get_scan_ratio() return correct value although memcg reclaim. Then, mem_cgroup_calc_reclaim() can be removed. So, memcg reclaim get the same capability of anon/file reclaim balancing as global reclaim now. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: add zone_reclaim_statKOSAKI Motohiro
Introduce mem_cgroup_per_zone::reclaim_stat member and its statics collecting function. Now, get_scan_ratio() can calculate correct value on memcg reclaim. [hugh@veritas.com: avoid reclaim_stat oops when disabled] Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: add mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages()KOSAKI Motohiro
Introduce mem_cgroup_zone_nr_pages(). It is called by zone_nr_pages() helper function. This patch doesn't have any behavior change. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: add inactive_anon_is_low()KOSAKI Motohiro
The inactive_anon_is_low() is key component of active/inactive anon balancing on reclaim. However current inactive_anon_is_low() function only consider global reclaim. Therefore, we need following ugly scan_global_lru() condition. if (lru == LRU_ACTIVE_ANON && (!scan_global_lru(sc) || inactive_anon_is_low(zone))) { shrink_active_list(nr_to_scan, zone, sc, priority, file); return 0; it cause that memcg reclaim always deactivate pages when shrink_list() is called. To make mem_cgroup_inactive_anon_is_low() improve active/inactive anon balancing of memcgroup. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: add null check to page_cgroup_zoneinfo()KOSAKI Motohiro
If CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=y, page_cgroup::mem_cgroup can be NULL. Therefore null checking is better. A later patch uses this function. Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08mm: make get_scan_ratio() safe for memcgKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, get_scan_ratio() always calculate the balancing value for global reclaim and memcg reclaim doesn't use it. Therefore it doesn't have scan_global_lru() condition. However, we plan to expand get_scan_ratio() to be usable for memcg too, latter. Then, The dependency code of global reclaim in the get_scan_ratio() insert into scan_global_lru() condision explictly. This patch doesn't have any functional change. Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08mm: add zone nr_pages helper functionKOSAKI Motohiro
Add zone_nr_pages() helper function. It is used by a later patch. This patch doesn't have any functional change. Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08mm: introduce zone_reclaim structKOSAKI Motohiro
Add zone_reclam_stat struct for later enhancement. A later patch uses this. This patch doesn't any behavior change (yet). Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08inactive_anon_is_low: move to vmscanKOSAKI Motohiro
The inactive_anon_is_low() is called only vmscan. Then it can move to vmscan.c This patch doesn't have any functional change. Reviewd-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: hierarchy avoid unnecessary reclaimDaisuke Nishimura
If hierarchy is not used, no tree-walk is necessary. Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: swapout refcnt fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
css's refcnt is dropped before end of following access. Hold it until end of access. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: memory swap controller: fix limit checkDaisuke Nishimura
There are scatterd calls of res_counter_check_under_limit(), and most of them don't take mem+swap accounting into account. define mem_cgroup_check_under_limit() and avoid direct use of res_counter_check_limit(). Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: check group leader fixNikanth Karthikesan
Remove unnecessary codes (...fragments of not-implemented functionalilty...) Reported-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: revert gfp mask fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
My patch, memcg-fix-gfp_mask-of-callers-of-charge.patch changed gfp_mask of callers of charge to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE for showing what will happen at memory reclaim. But in recent discussion, it's NACKed because it sounds ugly. This patch is for reverting it and add some clean up to gfp_mask of callers of charge. No behavior change but need review before generating HUNK in deep queue. This patch also adds explanation to meaning of gfp_mask passed to charge functions in memcontrol.h. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: fix reclaim result checksKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
check_under_limit logic was wrong and this check should be against mem_over_limit rather than mem. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: avoid unnecessary system-wide-oom-killerKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Current mmtom has new oom function as pagefault_out_of_memory(). It's added for select bad process rathar than killing current. When memcg hit limit and calls OOM at page_fault, this handler called and system-wide-oom handling happens. (means kernel panics if panic_on_oom is true....) To avoid overkill, check memcg's recent behavior before starting system-wide-oom. And this patch also fixes to guarantee "don't accnout against process with TIF_MEMDIE". This is necessary for smooth OOM. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: memory cgroup hierarchy feature selectorBalbir Singh
Don't enable multiple hierarchy support by default. This patch introduces a features element that can be set to enable the nested depth hierarchy feature. This feature can only be enabled when the cgroup for which the feature this is enabled, has no children. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: memory cgroup hierarchical reclaimBalbir Singh
This patch introduces hierarchical reclaim. When an ancestor goes over its limit, the charging routine points to the parent that is above its limit. The reclaim process then starts from the last scanned child of the ancestor and reclaims until the ancestor goes below its limit. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp: mem_cgroup_from_res_counter should handle both mem->res and mem->memsw] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: memory cgroup resource counters for hierarchyBalbir Singh
Add support for building hierarchies in resource counters. Cgroups allows us to build a deep hierarchy, but we currently don't link the resource counters belonging to the memory controller control groups, in the same fashion as the corresponding cgroup entries in the cgroup hierarchy. This patch provides the infrastructure for resource counters that have the same hiearchy as their cgroup counter parts. These set of patches are based on the resource counter hiearchy patches posted by Pavel Emelianov. NOTE: Building hiearchies is expensive, deeper hierarchies imply charging the all the way up to the root. It is known that hiearchies are expensive, so the user needs to be careful and aware of the trade-offs before creating very deep ones. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: add mem_cgroup_disabled()Hirokazu Takahashi
We check mem_cgroup is disabled or not by checking mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled. I think it has more references than expected, now. replacing if (mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled) with if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) give us good look, I think. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix typo] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: synchronized LRUKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics. Now, - page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone). - LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU. - page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated. - To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as - lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc); - SwapCache is handled. And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following. pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1) mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock); .....add to LRU spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock); unlock_page_cgroup(pc); But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock. So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct. This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks. This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock. Then, above sequence will be written as spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() { pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page); mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc); if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) { ....add to LRU } spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU This is much simpler. (*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because.. 1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified. - at charge. - at account_move(). 2. at charge the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed. 3. at account_move() the page is isolated and not on LRU. Pros. - easy for maintenance. - memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec. - we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup. - LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one. - # of locks are reduced. - account_move() is simplified very much. Cons. - may increase cost of LRU rotation. (no impact if memcg is not configured.) Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-08memcg: mem+swap controller coreKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This patch implements per cgroup limit for usage of memory+swap. However there are SwapCache, double counting of swap-cache and swap-entry is avoided. Mem+Swap controller works as following. - memory usage is limited by memory.limit_in_bytes. - memory + swap usage is limited by memory.memsw_limit_in_bytes. This has following benefits. - A user can limit total resource usage of mem+swap. Without this, because memory resource controller doesn't take care of usage of swap, a process can exhaust all the swap (by memory leak.) We can avoid this case. And Swap is shared resource but it cannot be reclaimed (goes back to memory) until it's used. This characteristic can be trouble when the memory is divided into some parts by cpuset or memcg. Assume group A and group B. After some application executes, the system can be.. Group A -- very large free memory space but occupy 99% of swap. Group B -- under memory shortage but cannot use swap...it's nearly full. Ability to set appropriate swap limit for each group is required. Maybe someone wonder "why not swap but mem+swap ?" - The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of mem+swap. In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap. Accounting target information is stored in swap_cgroup which is per swap entry record. Charge is done as following. map - charge page and memsw. unmap - uncharge page/memsw if not SwapCache. swap-out (__delete_from_swap_cache) - uncharge page - record mem_cgroup information to swap_cgroup. swap-in (do_swap_page) - charged as page and memsw. record in swap_cgroup is cleared. memsw accounting is decremented. swap-free (swap_free()) - if swap entry is freed, memsw is uncharged by PAGE_SIZE. There are people work under never-swap environments and consider swap as something bad. For such people, this mem+swap controller extension is just an overhead. This overhead is avoided by config or boot option. (see Kconfig. detail is not in this patch.) TODO: - maybe more optimization can be don in swap-in path. (but not very safe.) But we just do simple accounting at this stage. [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: make resize limit hold mutex] [hugh@veritas.com: memswap controller core swapcache fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>