Re: [patch 2/3] mm: memcontrol: remove obsolete kmemcg pinning tricks

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>]

On Sat 20-09-14 16:00:34, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> As charges now pin the css explicitely, there is no more need for
> kmemcg to acquire a proxy reference for outstanding pages during
> offlining, or maintain state to identify such "dead" groups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

More than happy to get rid of this trickery.
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 74 +--------------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 73 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index b832c87ec43b..019a44ac25d6 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -471,7 +471,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>  /* internal only representation about the status of kmem accounting. */
>  enum {
>  	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE, /* accounted by this cgroup itself */
> -	KMEM_ACCOUNTED_DEAD, /* dead memcg with pending kmem charges */
>  };
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
> @@ -485,22 +484,6 @@ static bool memcg_kmem_is_active(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  	return test_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE, &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
>  }
>  
> -static void memcg_kmem_mark_dead(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> -{
> -	/*
> -	 * Our caller must use css_get() first, because memcg_uncharge_kmem()
> -	 * will call css_put() if it sees the memcg is dead.
> -	 */
> -	smp_wmb();
> -	if (test_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_ACTIVE, &memcg->kmem_account_flags))
> -		set_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_DEAD, &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
> -}
> -
> -static bool memcg_kmem_test_and_clear_dead(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> -{
> -	return test_and_clear_bit(KMEM_ACCOUNTED_DEAD,
> -				  &memcg->kmem_account_flags);
> -}
>  #endif
>  
>  /* Stuffs for move charges at task migration. */
> @@ -2807,22 +2790,7 @@ static void memcg_uncharge_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  	if (do_swap_account)
>  		page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->memsw, nr_pages);
>  
> -	/* Not down to 0 */
> -	if (page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages)) {
> -		css_put_many(&memcg->css, nr_pages);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * Releases a reference taken in kmem_cgroup_css_offline in case
> -	 * this last uncharge is racing with the offlining code or it is
> -	 * outliving the memcg existence.
> -	 *
> -	 * The memory barrier imposed by test&clear is paired with the
> -	 * explicit one in memcg_kmem_mark_dead().
> -	 */
> -	if (memcg_kmem_test_and_clear_dead(memcg))
> -		css_put(&memcg->css);
> +	page_counter_uncharge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages);
>  
>  	css_put_many(&memcg->css, nr_pages);
>  }
> @@ -4805,40 +4773,6 @@ static void memcg_destroy_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
>  	mem_cgroup_sockets_destroy(memcg);
>  }
> -
> -static void kmem_cgroup_css_offline(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> -{
> -	if (!memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg))
> -		return;
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * kmem charges can outlive the cgroup. In the case of slab
> -	 * pages, for instance, a page contain objects from various
> -	 * processes. As we prevent from taking a reference for every
> -	 * such allocation we have to be careful when doing uncharge
> -	 * (see memcg_uncharge_kmem) and here during offlining.
> -	 *
> -	 * The idea is that that only the _last_ uncharge which sees
> -	 * the dead memcg will drop the last reference. An additional
> -	 * reference is taken here before the group is marked dead
> -	 * which is then paired with css_put during uncharge resp. here.
> -	 *
> -	 * Although this might sound strange as this path is called from
> -	 * css_offline() when the referencemight have dropped down to 0 and
> -	 * shouldn't be incremented anymore (css_tryget_online() would
> -	 * fail) we do not have other options because of the kmem
> -	 * allocations lifetime.
> -	 */
> -	css_get(&memcg->css);
> -
> -	memcg_kmem_mark_dead(memcg);
> -
> -	if (atomic_long_read(&memcg->kmem.count))
> -		return;
> -
> -	if (memcg_kmem_test_and_clear_dead(memcg))
> -		css_put(&memcg->css);
> -}
>  #else
>  static int memcg_init_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
>  {
> @@ -4848,10 +4782,6 @@ static int memcg_init_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
>  static void memcg_destroy_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
>  }
> -
> -static void kmem_cgroup_css_offline(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> -{
> -}
>  #endif
>  
>  /*
> @@ -5443,8 +5373,6 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
>  	}
>  	spin_unlock(&memcg->event_list_lock);
>  
> -	kmem_cgroup_css_offline(memcg);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * This requires that offlining is serialized.  Right now that is
>  	 * guaranteed because css_killed_work_fn() holds the cgroup_mutex.
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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