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authorSean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>2017-07-10 15:48:05 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-10 16:32:31 -0700
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mm/memcontrol: exclude @root from checks in mem_cgroup_low
Make @root exclusive in mem_cgroup_low; it is never considered low when looked at directly and is not checked when traversing the tree. In effect, @root is handled identically to how root_mem_cgroup was previously handled by mem_cgroup_low. If @root is not excluded from the checks, a cgroup underneath @root will never be considered low during targeted reclaim of @root, e.g. due to memory.current > memory.high, unless @root is misconfigured to have memory.low > memory.high. Excluding @root enables using memory.low to prioritize memory usage between cgroups within a subtree of the hierarchy that is limited by memory.high or memory.max, e.g. when ROOT owns @root's controls but delegates the @root directory to a USER so that USER can create and administer children of @root. For example, given cgroup A with children B and C: A / \ B C and 1. A/memory.current > A/memory.high 2. A/B/memory.current < A/B/memory.low 3. A/C/memory.current >= A/C/memory.low As 'A' is high, i.e. triggers reclaim from 'A', and 'B' is low, we should reclaim from 'C' until 'A' is no longer high or until we can no longer reclaim from 'C'. If 'A', i.e. @root, isn't excluded by mem_cgroup_low when reclaming from 'A', then 'B' won't be considered low and we will reclaim indiscriminately from both 'B' and 'C'. Here is the test I used to confirm the bug and the patch. 20:00:55@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ cat ~/.bin/memcg_low_test #!/bin/bash x62mb=$((62<<20)) x66mb=$((66<<20)) x94mb=$((94<<20)) x98mb=$((98<<20)) setup() { set -e if [[ -n $DEBUG ]]; then set -x fi trap teardown EXIT HUP INT TERM if [[ ! -e /mnt/1gb.swap ]]; then sudo fallocate -l 1G /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null sudo mkswap /mnt/1gb.swap > /dev/null fi if ! swapon --show=NAME | grep -q "/mnt/1gb.swap"; then sudo swapon /mnt/1gb.swap fi if [[ ! -e /cgroup/cgroup.controllers ]]; then sudo mount -t cgroup2 none /cgroup fi grep -q memory /cgroup/cgroup.controllers sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control" sudo mkdir /cgroup/A && sudo chown $USER:$USER /cgroup/A sudo sh -c "echo '+memory' > /cgroup/A/cgroup.subtree_control" sudo sh -c "echo '96m' > /cgroup/A/memory.high" mkdir /cgroup/A/0 mkdir /cgroup/A/1 echo 64m > /cgroup/A/0/memory.low } teardown() { set +e trap - EXIT HUP INT TERM if [[ -z $1 ]]; then printf "\n" printf "%0.s*" {1..35} printf "\nFAILED!\n\n" tail /cgroup/A/**/memory.current printf "%0.s*" {1..35} printf "\n\n" fi ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill % sleep 2 if [[ -e /cgroup/A/0 ]]; then rmdir /cgroup/A/0 fi if [[ -e /cgroup/A/1 ]]; then rmdir /cgroup/A/1 fi if [[ -e /cgroup/A ]]; then sudo rmdir /cgroup/A fi } stress_test() { sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$1/cgroup.procs" stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null & sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/A/$2/cgroup.procs" stress --vm 1 --vm-bytes 64M --vm-keep > /dev/null & sudo sh -c "echo $$ > /cgroup/cgroup.procs" sleep 1 # A/0 should be consuming more memory than A/1 [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $(cat /cgroup/A/1/memory.current) ]] # A/0 should be consuming ~64mb [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -ge $x62mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/0/memory.current) -le $x66mb ]] # A should cumulatively be consuming ~96mb [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -ge $x94mb ]] && [[ $(cat /cgroup/A/memory.current) -le $x98mb ]] # Stop the stressors ps | grep stress | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | xargs -I % kill % } teardown 1 setup for ((i=1;i<=$1;i++)); do printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 0 1" stress_test 0 1 printf "\x1b[2K\r" printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - stress_test 1 0" stress_test 1 0 printf "\x1b[2K\r" printf "ITERATION $i of $1 - PASSED\n" done teardown 1 echo PASSED! 20:11:26@sjchrist-vm ? ~ $ memcg_low_test 10 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496434412-21005-1-git-send-email-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c50
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 425aa0caa712..a6eef3603b72 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5317,38 +5317,52 @@ struct cgroup_subsys memory_cgrp_subsys = {
/**
* mem_cgroup_low - check if memory consumption is below the normal range
- * @root: the highest ancestor to consider
+ * @root: the top ancestor of the sub-tree being checked
* @memcg: the memory cgroup to check
*
* Returns %true if memory consumption of @memcg, and that of all
- * configurable ancestors up to @root, is below the normal range.
+ * ancestors up to (but not including) @root, is below the normal range.
+ *
+ * @root is exclusive; it is never low when looked at directly and isn't
+ * checked when traversing the hierarchy.
+ *
+ * Excluding @root enables using memory.low to prioritize memory usage
+ * between cgroups within a subtree of the hierarchy that is limited by
+ * memory.high or memory.max.
+ *
+ * For example, given cgroup A with children B and C:
+ *
+ * A
+ * / \
+ * B C
+ *
+ * and
+ *
+ * 1. A/memory.current > A/memory.high
+ * 2. A/B/memory.current < A/B/memory.low
+ * 3. A/C/memory.current >= A/C/memory.low
+ *
+ * As 'A' is high, i.e. triggers reclaim from 'A', and 'B' is low, we
+ * should reclaim from 'C' until 'A' is no longer high or until we can
+ * no longer reclaim from 'C'. If 'A', i.e. @root, isn't excluded by
+ * mem_cgroup_low when reclaming from 'A', then 'B' won't be considered
+ * low and we will reclaim indiscriminately from both 'B' and 'C'.
*/
bool mem_cgroup_low(struct mem_cgroup *root, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return false;
- /*
- * The toplevel group doesn't have a configurable range, so
- * it's never low when looked at directly, and it is not
- * considered an ancestor when assessing the hierarchy.
- */
-
- if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup)
- return false;
-
- if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) >= memcg->low)
+ if (!root)
+ root = root_mem_cgroup;
+ if (memcg == root)
return false;
- while (memcg != root) {
- memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
-
- if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup)
- break;
-
+ for (; memcg != root; memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) {
if (page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) >= memcg->low)
return false;
}
+
return true;
}