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Message-ID: <661de9470803250848p1ead8571ibfbe6e1196da8a89@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:18:00 +0530
From: "Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, "Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>,
"Sudhir Kumar" <skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"YAMAMOTO Takashi" <yamamoto@...inux.co.jp>,
"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
taka@...inux.co.jp, "David Rientjes" <rientjes@...gle.com>,
"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][-mm] Memory controller add mm->owner
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> Balbir Singh wrote:
> > This patch removes the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds
> > an owner. This approach was suggested by Paul Menage. The advantage of
> > this approach is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem
> > id, the cgroup can be determined. It also allows several control groups
> > that are virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory
> > controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller,
> > to mm_struct.
> >
> > The code initially assigns mm->owner to the task and then after the
> > thread group leader is identified. The mm->owner is changed to the thread
> > group leader of the task later at the end of copy_process.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> >
> > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 14 +++++++++++++-
> > include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 ++++-
> > kernel/fork.c | 4 ++++
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > 4 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~memory-controller-add-mm-owner include/linux/mm_types.h
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc5/include/linux/mm_types.h~memory-controller-add-mm-owner 2008-03-20 13:35:09.000000000 +0530
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-balbir/include/linux/mm_types.h 2008-03-20 15:11:05.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -228,7 +228,10 @@ struct mm_struct {
> > rwlock_t ioctx_list_lock;
> > struct kioctx *ioctx_list;
> > #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
> > - struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
> > + struct task_struct *owner; /* The thread group leader that */
> > + /* owns the mm_struct. This */
> > + /* might be useful even outside */
> > + /* of the config option */
> > #endif
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
> > diff -puN kernel/fork.c~memory-controller-add-mm-owner kernel/fork.c
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc5/kernel/fork.c~memory-controller-add-mm-owner 2008-03-20 13:35:09.000000000 +0530
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-balbir/kernel/fork.c 2008-03-24 18:49:29.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -1357,6 +1357,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(
> > write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
> > proc_fork_connector(p);
> > cgroup_post_fork(p);
> > +
> > + if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_VM))
> > + mem_cgroup_fork_init(p);
> > +
> > return p;
> >
> > bad_fork_free_pid:
> > diff -puN include/linux/memcontrol.h~memory-controller-add-mm-owner include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc5/include/linux/memcontrol.h~memory-controller-add-mm-owner 2008-03-20 13:35:09.000000000 +0530
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-balbir/include/linux/memcontrol.h 2008-03-24 18:49:52.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ struct mm_struct;
> >
> > extern void mm_init_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p);
> > extern void mm_free_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm);
> > +extern void mem_cgroup_fork_init(struct task_struct *p);
> >
> > #define page_reset_bad_cgroup(page) ((page)->page_cgroup = 0)
> >
> > @@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ extern void mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(str
> > int task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, const struct mem_cgroup *mem);
> >
> > #define mm_match_cgroup(mm, cgroup) \
> > - ((cgroup) == rcu_dereference((mm)->mem_cgroup))
> > + ((cgroup) == mem_cgroup_from_task((mm)->owner))
> >
> > extern int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page);
> > extern void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct page *page);
> > @@ -72,6 +73,8 @@ extern long mem_cgroup_calc_reclaim_acti
> > extern long mem_cgroup_calc_reclaim_inactive(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
> > struct zone *zone, int priority);
> >
> > +extern struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
> > +
> > #else /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR */
> > static inline void mm_init_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm,
> > struct task_struct *p)
> > @@ -82,6 +85,10 @@ static inline void mm_free_cgroup(struct
> > {
> > }
> >
> > +static inline void mem_cgroup_fork_init(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline void page_reset_bad_cgroup(struct page *page)
> > {
> > }
> > @@ -172,6 +179,11 @@ static inline long mem_cgroup_calc_recla
> > {
> > return 0;
> > }
> > +
> > +static void mm_free_fork_cgroup(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > +}
> > +
>
> Where is this function used? I don't see the corresponding one
> with CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR enabled?
>
I kept that as a template for freeing up code. I'll remove that since
it is additional code
>
> > #endif /* CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT */
> >
> > #endif /* _LINUX_MEMCONTROL_H */
> > diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-add-mm-owner mm/memcontrol.c
> > --- linux-2.6.25-rc5/mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-add-mm-owner 2008-03-20 13:35:09.000000000 +0530
> > +++ linux-2.6.25-rc5-balbir/mm/memcontrol.c 2008-03-24 19:04:32.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_fro
> > css);
> > }
> >
> > -static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
> > +struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
> > {
> > return container_of(task_subsys_state(p, mem_cgroup_subsys_id),
> > struct mem_cgroup, css);
> > @@ -248,12 +248,40 @@ void mm_init_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm
> >
> > mem = mem_cgroup_from_task(p);
> > css_get(&mem->css);
> > - mm->mem_cgroup = mem;
> > + mm->owner = p;
> > +}
> > +
> > +void mem_cgroup_fork_init(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > + struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p);
> > + struct mem_cgroup *mem, *oldmem;
>
> Leave an empty line here.
>
OK
Thanks for the review
Balbir
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