Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm: memcg: charge memcg percpu memory to the parent cgroup

Roman Gushchin
2020-08-11T17:06:38Z

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 11:27:37AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 11:45:14AM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > Memory cgroups are using large chunks of percpu memory to store vmstat
> > data. Yet this memory is not accounted at all, so in the case when there
> > are many (dying) cgroups, it's not exactly clear where all the memory is.
> >
> > Because the size of memory cgroup internal structures can dramatically
> > exceed the size of object or page which is pinning it in the memory, it's
> > not a good idea to simple ignore it. It actually breaks the isolation
> > between cgroups.
> >
> > Let's account the consumed percpu memory to the parent cgroup.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> > Acked-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>

Thank you!

>
> This makes sense, and the accounting is in line with how we track and
> distribute child creation quotas (cgroup.max.descendants and
> cgroup.max.depth) up the cgroup tree.
>
> I have one minor comment that isn't a dealbreaker for me:
>
> > @@ -5069,13 +5069,15 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int node)
> > if (!pn)
> > return 1;
> >
> > - pn->lruvec_stat_local = alloc_percpu(struct lruvec_stat);
> > + pn->lruvec_stat_local = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct lruvec_stat,
> > + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> > if (!pn->lruvec_stat_local) {
> > kfree(pn);
> > return 1;
> > }
> >
> > - pn->lruvec_stat_cpu = alloc_percpu(struct lruvec_stat);
> > + pn->lruvec_stat_cpu = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct lruvec_stat,
> > + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> > if (!pn->lruvec_stat_cpu) {
> > free_percpu(pn->lruvec_stat_local);
> > kfree(pn);
> > @@ -5149,11 +5151,13 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
> > goto fail;
> > }
> >
> > - memcg->vmstats_local = alloc_percpu(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu);
> > + memcg->vmstats_local = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu,
> > + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> > if (!memcg->vmstats_local)
> > goto fail;
> >
> > - memcg->vmstats_percpu = alloc_percpu(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu);
> > + memcg->vmstats_percpu = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu,
> > + GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> > if (!memcg->vmstats_percpu)
> > goto fail;
> >
> > @@ -5202,7 +5206,9 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
> > struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> > long error = -ENOMEM;
> >
> > + memalloc_use_memcg(parent);
> > memcg = mem_cgroup_alloc();
> > + memalloc_unuse_memcg();
>
> The disconnect between 1) requesting accounting and 2) which cgroup to
> charge is making me uneasy. It makes mem_cgroup_alloc() a bit of a
> handgrenade, because accounting to the current task is almost
> guaranteed to be wrong if the use_memcg() annotation were to get lost
> in a refactor or not make it to a new caller of the function.
>
> The saving grace is that mem_cgroup_alloc() is pretty unlikely to be
> used elsewhere. And pretending it's an independent interface would be
> overengineering. But how about the following in mem_cgroup_alloc() and
> alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() to document that caller relationship:
>
> /* We charge the parent cgroup, never the current task */
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->active_memcg);

I have nothing against.

Andrew, can you, please, squash the following diff into the patch?

Thanks!

--

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 130093bdf74b..e25f2db7e61c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5137,6 +5137,9 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int node)
if (!pn)
return 1;

+ /* We charge the parent cgroup, never the current task */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->active_memcg);
+
pn->lruvec_stat_local = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct lruvec_stat,
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!pn->lruvec_stat_local) {
@@ -5219,6 +5222,9 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void)
goto fail;
}

+ /* We charge the parent cgroup, never the current task */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!current->active_memcg);
+
memcg->vmstats_local = alloc_percpu_gfp(struct memcg_vmstats_percpu,
GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (!memcg->vmstats_local)