[RFC PATCH 00/15] Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages

* [RFC PATCH 00/15] Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages
@ 2021-03-30 10:15 Muchun Song
  2021-03-30 10:15 ` [RFC PATCH 01/15] mm: memcontrol: fix page charging in page replacement Muchun Song
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  0 siblings, 16 replies; 36+ messages in thread
From: Muchun Song @ 2021-03-30 10:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guro, hannes, mhocko, akpm, shakeelb, vdavydov.dev
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, duanxiongchun, Muchun Song

Since the following patchsets applied. All the kernel memory are charged
with the new APIs of obj_cgroup.

	[v17,00/19] The new cgroup slab memory controller
	[v5,0/7] Use obj_cgroup APIs to charge kmem pages

But user memory allocations (LRU pages) pinning memcgs for a long time -
it exists at a larger scale and is causing recurring problems in the real
world: page cache doesn't get reclaimed for a long time, or is used by the
second, third, fourth, ... instance of the same job that was restarted into
a new cgroup every time. Unreclaimable dying cgroups pile up, waste memory,
and make page reclaim very inefficient.

We can convert LRU pages and most other raw memcg pins to the objcg direction
to fix this problem, and then the LRU pages will not pin the memcgs.

This patchset aims to make the LRU pages to drop the reference to memory
cgroup by using the APIs of obj_cgroup. Finally, we can see that the number
of the dying cgroups will not increase if we run the following test script.

```bash
#!/bin/bash

cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory

cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory

for i in range{1..500}
do
	mkdir test
	echo $$ > test/cgroup.procs
	sleep 60 &
	echo $$ > cgroup.procs
	echo `cat test/cgroup.procs` > cgroup.procs
	rmdir test
done

cat /proc/cgroups | grep memory
```

Patch 1 aims to fix page charging in page replacement.
Patch 2-5 are code cleanup and simplification.
Patch 6-15 convert LRU pages pin to the objcg direction.

Muchun Song (15):
  mm: memcontrol: fix page charging in page replacement
  mm: memcontrol: bail out early when !mm in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm
  mm: memcontrol: remove the pgdata parameter of mem_cgroup_page_lruvec
  mm: memcontrol: use lruvec_memcg in lruvec_holds_page_lru_lock
  mm: memcontrol: simplify the logic of objcg pinning memcg
  mm: memcontrol: move the objcg infrastructure out of CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
  mm: memcontrol: introduce compact_lock_page_lruvec_irqsave
  mm: memcontrol: make lruvec lock safe when the LRU pages reparented
  mm: thp: introduce lock/unlock_split_queue{_irqsave}()
  mm: thp: make deferred split queue lock safe when the LRU pages
    reparented
  mm: memcontrol: make all the callers of page_memcg() safe
  mm: memcontrol: introduce memcg_reparent_ops
  mm: memcontrol: use obj_cgroup APIs to charge the LRU pages
  mm: memcontrol: rename {un}lock_page_memcg() to {un}lock_page_objcg()
  mm: lru: add VM_BUG_ON_PAGE to lru maintenance function

 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst |   2 +-
 fs/buffer.c                                    |  13 +-
 fs/fs-writeback.c                              |  23 +-
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c                         |   4 +-
 include/linux/memcontrol.h                     | 197 +++++----
 include/linux/mm_inline.h                      |   6 +
 mm/compaction.c                                |  42 +-
 mm/filemap.c                                   |   2 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c                               | 175 +++++++-
 mm/memcontrol.c                                | 578 +++++++++++++++++--------
 mm/migrate.c                                   |   4 +
 mm/page-writeback.c                            |  28 +-
 mm/page_io.c                                   |   5 +-
 mm/rmap.c                                      |  14 +-
 mm/swap.c                                      |   7 +-
 mm/vmscan.c                                    |   3 +-
 mm/workingset.c                                |   2 +-
 17 files changed, 762 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)

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2.11.0

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