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* [PATCH v1 0/5] mm: memcg accounting of percpu memory
@ 2020-05-28 23:25 Roman Gushchin
  2020-05-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] percpu: return number of released bytes from pcpu_free_area() Roman Gushchin
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From: Roman Gushchin @ 2020-05-28 23:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter
  Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Shakeel Butt, linux-mm,
	kernel-team, linux-kernel, Roman Gushchin

This patchset adds percpu memory accounting to memory cgroups.
It's based on the rework of the slab controller and reuses concepts
and features introduced for the per-object slab accounting.

Percpu memory is becoming more and more widely used by various
subsystems, and the total amount of memory controlled by the percpu
allocator can make a good part of the total memory.

As an example, bpf maps can consume a lot of percpu memory,
and they are created by a user. Also, some cgroup internals
(e.g. memory controller statistics) can be quite large.
On a machine with many CPUs and big number of cgroups they
can consume hundreds of megabytes.

So the lack of memcg accounting is creating a breach in the memory
isolation. Similar to the slab memory, percpu memory should be
accounted by default.

Percpu allocations by their nature are scattered over multiple pages,
so they can't be tracked on the per-page basis. So the per-object
tracking introduced by the new slab controller is reused.

The patchset implements charging of percpu allocations, adds
memcg-level statistics, enables accounting for percpu allocations made
by memory cgroup internals and provides some basic tests.

To implement the accounting of percpu memory without a significant
memory and performance overhead the following approach is used:
all accounted allocations are placed into a separate percpu chunk
(or chunks). These chunks are similar to default chunks, except
that they do have an attached vector of pointers to obj_cgroup objects,
which is big enough to save a pointer for each allocated object.
On the allocation, if the allocation has to be accounted
(__GFP_ACCOUNT is passed, the allocating process belongs to a non-root
memory cgroup, etc), the memory cgroup is getting charged and if the maximum
limit is not exceeded the allocation is performed using a memcg-aware
chunk. Otherwise -ENOMEM is returned or the allocation is forced over
the limit, depending on gfp (as any other kernel memory allocation).
The memory cgroup information is saved in the obj_cgroup vector
at the corresponding offset. On the release time the memcg
information is restored from the vector and the cgroup is getting
uncharged.
Unaccounted allocations (at this point the absolute majority
of all percpu allocations) are performed in the old way, so no
additional overhead is expected.

To avoid pinning dying memory cgroups by outstanding allocations,
obj_cgroup API is used instead of directly saving memory cgroup pointers.
obj_cgroup is basically a pointer to a memory cgroup with a standalone
reference counter. The trick is that it can be atomically swapped
to point at the parent cgroup, so that the original memory cgroup
can be released prior to all objects, which has been charged to it.
Because all charges and statistics are fully recursive, it's perfectly
correct to uncharge the parent cgroup instead. This scheme is used
in the slab memory accounting, and percpu memory can just follow
the scheme.

This version is based on top of v5 of the new slab controller
patchset. The following patches are actually required by this series:
  mm: memcg: factor out memcg- and lruvec-level changes out of __mod_lruvec_state()
  mm: memcg: prepare for byte-sized vmstat items
  mm: memcg: convert vmstat slab counters to bytes
  mm: slub: implement SLUB version of obj_to_index()
  mm: memcontrol: decouple reference counting from page accounting
  mm: memcg/slab: obj_cgroup API

The whole series can be found here:
https://github.com/rgushchin/linux/pull/new/percpu_acc.1

v1:
  1) fixed a bug with gfp flags handling (Dennis)
  2) added some comments (Tejun and Dennis)
  3) rebased to v5 of the slab controller patchset

RFC:
  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200519201806.2308480-1-guro@fb.com/T/#t


Roman Gushchin (5):
  percpu: return number of released bytes from pcpu_free_area()
  mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups
  mm: memcg/percpu: per-memcg percpu memory statistics
  mm: memcg: charge memcg percpu memory to the parent cgroup
  kselftests: cgroup: add perpcu memory accounting test

 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst    |   4 +
 include/linux/memcontrol.h                 |   8 +
 mm/memcontrol.c                            |  18 +-
 mm/percpu-internal.h                       |  57 +++++-
 mm/percpu-km.c                             |   5 +-
 mm/percpu-stats.c                          |  36 ++--
 mm/percpu-vm.c                             |   5 +-
 mm/percpu.c                                | 209 ++++++++++++++++++---
 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_kmem.c |  59 ++++++
 9 files changed, 352 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

-- 
2.25.4



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2020-06-05 19:44   ` Dennis Zhou
2020-05-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] mm: memcg/percpu: account percpu memory to memory cgroups Roman Gushchin
2020-06-05 19:49   ` Dennis Zhou
2020-06-05 22:44     ` Roman Gushchin
2020-05-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] mm: memcg/percpu: per-memcg percpu memory statistics Roman Gushchin
2020-06-05 19:53   ` Dennis Zhou
2020-05-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] mm: memcg: charge memcg percpu memory to the parent cgroup Roman Gushchin
2020-06-05 19:54   ` Dennis Zhou
2020-05-28 23:25 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] kselftests: cgroup: add perpcu memory accounting test Roman Gushchin
2020-06-05 20:07   ` Dennis Zhou
2020-06-05 22:47     ` Roman Gushchin

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