[PATCH] mm, slab: Extend slab/shrink to shrink all the memcg caches

Waiman Long
2019-07-02T18:38:15Z

Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab/<slab>/shrink
file to shrink the slab by flushing all the per-cpu slabs and free
slabs in partial lists. This applies only to the root caches, though.

Extends this capability by shrinking all the child memcg caches and
the root cache when a value of '2' is written to the shrink sysfs file.

On a 4-socket 112-core 224-thread x86-64 system after a parallel kernel
build, the the amount of memory occupied by slabs before shrinking
slabs were:

# grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo
task_struct 7114 7296 7744 4 8 : tunables 0 0
0 : slabdata 1824 1824 0
# grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo
Slab: 1310444 kB
SReclaimable: 377604 kB
SUnreclaim: 932840 kB

After shrinking slabs:

# grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo
Slab: 695652 kB
SReclaimable: 322796 kB
SUnreclaim: 372856 kB
# grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo
task_struct 2262 2572 7744 4 8 : tunables 0 0
0 : slabdata 643 643 0

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab | 10 +++--
mm/slab.h | 1 +
mm/slab_common.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++
mm/slub.c | 2 +
4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
index 29601d93a1c2..2a3d0fc4b4ac 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
@@ -429,10 +429,12 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.22
Contact: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Description:
- The shrink file is written when memory should be reclaimed from
- a cache. Empty partial slabs are freed and the partial list is
- sorted so the slabs with the fewest available objects are used
- first.
+ A value of '1' is written to the shrink file when memory should
+ be reclaimed from a cache. Empty partial slabs are freed and
+ the partial list is sorted so the slabs with the fewest
+ available objects are used first. When a value of '2' is
+ written, all the corresponding child memory cgroup caches
+ should be shrunk as well. All other values are invalid.

What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/slab_size
Date: May 2007
diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 3b22931bb557..a16b2c7ff4dd 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ int __kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
void __kmemcg_cache_deactivate(struct kmem_cache *s);
void __kmemcg_cache_deactivate_after_rcu(struct kmem_cache *s);
void slab_kmem_cache_release(struct kmem_cache *);
+int kmem_cache_shrink_all(struct kmem_cache *s);

struct seq_file;
struct file;
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 464faaa9fd81..493697ba1da5 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -981,6 +981,49 @@ int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_shrink);

+/**
+ * kmem_cache_shrink_all - shrink a cache and all its memcg children
+ * @s: The root cache to shrink.
+ *
+ * Return: 0 if successful, -EINVAL if not a root cache
+ */
+int kmem_cache_shrink_all(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+ struct kmem_cache *c;
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)) {
+ kmem_cache_shrink(s);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ if (!is_root_cache(s))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * The caller should have a reference to the root cache and so
+ * we don't need to take the slab_mutex. We have to take the
+ * slab_mutex, however, to iterate the memcg caches.
+ */
+ get_online_cpus();
+ get_online_mems();
+ kasan_cache_shrink(s);
+ __kmem_cache_shrink(s);
+
+ mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+ for_each_memcg_cache(c, s) {
+ /*
+ * Don't need to shrink deactivated memcg caches.
+ */
+ if (s->flags & SLAB_DEACTIVATED)
+ continue;
+ kasan_cache_shrink(c);
+ __kmem_cache_shrink(c);
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
+ put_online_mems();
+ put_online_cpus();
+ return 0;
+}
+
bool slab_is_available(void)
{
return slab_state >= UP;
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index a384228ff6d3..5d7b0004c51f 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -5298,6 +5298,8 @@ static ssize_t shrink_store(struct kmem_cache *s,
{
if (buf[0] == '1')
kmem_cache_shrink(s);
+ else if (buf[0] == '2')
+ kmem_cache_shrink_all(s);
else
return -EINVAL;
return length;
--
2.18.1