linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] memcg fix swap accounting (28/May)

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Date:	Thu, 28 May 2009 13:54:55 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk" <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	"hannes@...xchg.org" <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] memcg fix swap accounting (28/May)

Removed "RFC"

This patch series is restructured as following. some bugs are fixed.
Thank you for all your helps.

[1/4] ....change interface of swap_duplicate()/swap_free()
    Adds an function swapcache_prepare() and swapcache_free().

[2/4] ....add SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag and modify reference counting in swap_map
    Add SWAP_HAS_CACHE flag to swap_map array for knowing an information that
    "there is an only swap cache and swap has no reference" 
    without extra call of find_get_page().

[3/4] ....reclaim swap-cache-only swap_entry when get_swap_page() find it.
    Now, swap_map can tell "there is no reference other than cache", we
    can reclaim it if necessary.
    This code reclaim swap entries if
    - vm_swap_full()==ture
    && there is no free swap cluster
    && get_swap_page() finds unused swap entry.

[4/4].... fix memcg's swap accounting
    This is for fixing memcg's swap account leak. like this
==
            processA                   |           processB
  -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------
    (free_swap_and_cache())            |  (read_swap_cache_async())
                                       |    swap_duplicate()
                                       |    __set_page_locked()
                                       |    add_to_swap_cache()
      swap_entry_free() == 0           |
      find_get_page() -> found         |
      try_lock_page() -> fail & return |
                                       |    lru_cache_add_anon()
                                       |      doesn't link this page to memcg's
                                       |      LRU, because of !PageCgroupUsed.
==
    This patch tries to fix this by uncharging account when swap's refcnt goes
    to 0 even if there is an unused swap-cache.

    Works quite well in my test.

Thanks,
-Kame


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