Re: [PATCH 3/3] fs, mm: account buffer_head to kmemcg

Shakeel Butt
2018-06-22T23:33:19Z

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:55 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:51:15PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:41 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:27:41PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:13:27PM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > > > > The buffer_head can consume a significant amount of system memory and
> > > > > is directly related to the amount of page cache. In our production
> > > > > environment we have observed that a lot of machines are spending a
> > > > > significant amount of memory as buffer_head and can not be left as
> > > > > system memory overhead.
> > > > >
> > > > > Charging buffer_head is not as simple as adding __GFP_ACCOUNT to the
> > > > > allocation. The buffer_heads can be allocated in a memcg different from
> > > > > the memcg of the page for which buffer_heads are being allocated. One
> > > > > concrete example is memory reclaim. The reclaim can trigger I/O of pages
> > > > > of any memcg on the system. So, the right way to charge buffer_head is
> > > > > to extract the memcg from the page for which buffer_heads are being
> > > > > allocated and then use targeted memcg charging API.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
> > > > > Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> > > > > Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
> > > > > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
> > > > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > > > > Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> > > > > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> > > > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > fs/buffer.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
> > > > > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 +++++++
> > > > > mm/memcontrol.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > > > > 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > >
> > > > > diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
> > > > > index 8194e3049fc5..26389b7a3cab 100644
> > > > > --- a/fs/buffer.c
> > > > > +++ b/fs/buffer.c
> > > > > @@ -815,10 +815,17 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
> > > > > struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
> > > > > gfp_t gfp = GFP_NOFS;
> > > > > long offset;
> > > > > + struct mem_cgroup *old_memcg;
> > > > > + struct mem_cgroup *memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_page(page);
> > > > >
> > > > > if (retry)
> > > > > gfp |= __GFP_NOFAIL;
> > > > >
> > > > > + if (memcg) {
> > > > > + gfp |= __GFP_ACCOUNT;
> > > > > + old_memcg = memalloc_memcg_save(memcg);
> > > > > + }
> > > >
> > > > Please move the get_mem_cgroup_from_page() call out of the
> > > > declarations and down to right before the if (memcg) branch.
> > > >
> > > > > head = NULL;
> > > > > offset = PAGE_SIZE;
> > > > > while ((offset -= size) >= 0) {
> > > > > @@ -835,6 +842,11 @@ struct buffer_head *alloc_page_buffers(struct page *page, unsigned long size,
> > > > > /* Link the buffer to its page */
> > > > > set_bh_page(bh, page, offset);
> > > > > }
> > > > > +out:
> > > > > + if (memcg) {
> > > > > + memalloc_memcg_restore(old_memcg);
> > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > > > > + css_put(&memcg->css);
> > > > > +#endif
> > > >
> > > > Please add a put_mem_cgroup() ;)
> > >
> > > I've added such helper by commit 8a34a8b7fd62 ("mm, oom: cgroup-aware OOM killer").
> > > It's in the mm tree.
> > >
> >
> > I was using mem_cgroup_put() defined by Roman's patch but there were a
> > lot of build failure reports where someone was taking this series
> > without Roman's series or applying the series out of order. Andrew
> > asked me to keep it like this and then he will convert these callsites
> > into mem_cgroup_put() after making making sure Roman's series is
> > applied in mm tree. I will recheck with him, how he wants to handle it
> > now.
>
> I can also split the introduction of mem_cgroup_put() into a separate commit,
> as it seems to be usable not only by the cgroup oom stuff.
> Please, let me know, if it's a preferred way to go.
>

Oh I forgot to reply. Yes, let's do that, a separate patch to
introduce mem_cgroup_put() which can used by remote charging and memcg
aware oom-killer patches.

Shakeel