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Date:	Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:44:23 +0800
From:	Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...il.com>
To:	Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, yinghan@...gle.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] memcg: add per cgroup dirty pages accounting

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15 2012, Sha Zhengju wrote:
>
>> This patch adds memcg routines to count dirty pages. I notice that
>> the list has talked about per-cgroup dirty page limiting
>> (http://lwn.net/Articles/455341/) before, but it did not get merged.
>
> Good timing, I was just about to make another effort to get some of
> these patches upstream.  Like you, I was going to start with some basic
> counters.
>
> Your approach is similar to what I have in mind.  While it is good to
> use the existing PageDirty flag, rather than introducing a new
> page_cgroup flag, there are locking complications (see below) to handle
> races between moving pages between memcg and the pages being {un}marked
> dirty.
>
>> I've no idea how is this going now, but maybe we can add per cgroup
>> dirty pages accounting first. This allows the memory controller to
>> maintain an accurate view of the amount of its memory that is dirty
>> and can provide some infomation while group's direct reclaim is working.
>>
>> After commit 89c06bd5 (memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting),
>> we do not need per page_cgroup flag anymore and can directly use
>> struct page flag.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@...bao.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |    1 +
>>  mm/filemap.c               |    1 +
>>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  mm/page-writeback.c        |    2 ++
>>  mm/truncate.c              |    1 +
>>  5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> index a337c2e..8154ade 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum mem_cgroup_stat_index {
>>       MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED,  /* # of pages charged as file rss */
>>       MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, /* # of pages, swapped out */
>>       MEM_CGROUP_STAT_DATA, /* end of data requires synchronization */
>> +     MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY,  /* # of dirty pages in page cache */
>>       MEM_CGROUP_STAT_NSTATS,
>>  };
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
>> index 79c4b2b..5b5c121 100644
>> --- a/mm/filemap.c
>> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
>> @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ void __delete_from_page_cache(struct page *page)
>>        * having removed the page entirely.
>>        */
>>       if (PageDirty(page) && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
>> +             mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(page, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>
> You need to use mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat around critical
> sections that:
> 1) check PageDirty
> 2) update MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY counter
>
> This protects against the page from being moved between memcg while
> accounting.  Same comment applies to all of your new calls to
> mem_cgroup_{dec,inc}_page_stat.  For usage pattern, see
> page_add_file_rmap.


It seems I should call mem_cgroup_{begin,end}_update_page_stat to prevent race
while modifying struct page info.
Thanks for patiently explaining!


>
>>               dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
>>               dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
>>       }
>> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> index 9102b8c..d200ad1 100644
>> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
>> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
>> @@ -2548,6 +2548,18 @@ void mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(struct page *head)
>>  }
>>  #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
>>
>> +static inline
>> +void mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat(struct mem_cgroup *from,
>> +                                     struct mem_cgroup *to,
>> +                                     enum mem_cgroup_stat_index idx)
>> +{
>> +     /* Update stat data for mem_cgroup */
>> +     preempt_disable();
>> +     __this_cpu_dec(from->stat->count[idx]);
>> +     __this_cpu_inc(to->stat->count[idx]);
>> +     preempt_enable();
>> +}
>> +
>>  /**
>>   * mem_cgroup_move_account - move account of the page
>>   * @page: the page
>> @@ -2597,13 +2609,14 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_account(struct page *page,
>>
>>       move_lock_mem_cgroup(from, &flags);
>>
>> -     if (!anon && page_mapped(page)) {
>> -             /* Update mapped_file data for mem_cgroup */
>> -             preempt_disable();
>> -             __this_cpu_dec(from->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED]);
>> -             __this_cpu_inc(to->stat->count[MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED]);
>> -             preempt_enable();
>> -     }
>> +     if (!anon && page_mapped(page))
>> +             mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat(from, to,
>> +                                     MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_MAPPED);
>> +
>> +     if (PageDirty(page))
>> +             mem_cgroup_move_account_page_stat(from, to,
>> +                                     MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>> +
>>       mem_cgroup_charge_statistics(from, anon, -nr_pages);
>>       if (uncharge)
>>               /* This is not "cancel", but cancel_charge does all we need. */
>> @@ -4023,6 +4036,7 @@ enum {
>>       MCS_SWAP,
>>       MCS_PGFAULT,
>>       MCS_PGMAJFAULT,
>> +     MCS_FILE_DIRTY,
>>       MCS_INACTIVE_ANON,
>>       MCS_ACTIVE_ANON,
>>       MCS_INACTIVE_FILE,
>> @@ -4047,6 +4061,7 @@ struct {
>>       {"swap", "total_swap"},
>>       {"pgfault", "total_pgfault"},
>>       {"pgmajfault", "total_pgmajfault"},
>> +     {"dirty", "total_dirty"},
>
> Please add something to Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt describing this
> new user visible data.  See my previous patch
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/67114 for example text.
>


Got it. I'll add it in next version.

Thanks,
Sha


>>       {"inactive_anon", "total_inactive_anon"},
>>       {"active_anon", "total_active_anon"},
>>       {"inactive_file", "total_inactive_file"},
>> @@ -4080,6 +4095,9 @@ mem_cgroup_get_local_stat(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct mcs_total_stat *s)
>>       val = mem_cgroup_read_events(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_EVENTS_PGMAJFAULT);
>>       s->stat[MCS_PGMAJFAULT] += val;
>>
>> +     val = mem_cgroup_read_stat(memcg, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>> +     s->stat[MCS_FILE_DIRTY] += val * PAGE_SIZE;
>> +
>>       /* per zone stat */
>>       val = mem_cgroup_nr_lru_pages(memcg, BIT(LRU_INACTIVE_ANON));
>>       s->stat[MCS_INACTIVE_ANON] += val * PAGE_SIZE;
>> diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> index 26adea8..b17c692 100644
>> --- a/mm/page-writeback.c
>> +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
>> @@ -1936,6 +1936,7 @@ int __set_page_dirty_no_writeback(struct page *page)
>>  void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping)
>>  {
>>       if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
>> +             mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat(page, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>>               __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
>>               __inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED);
>>               __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
>> @@ -2155,6 +2156,7 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
>>                * for more comments.
>>                */
>>               if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
>> +                     mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(page, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>>                       dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
>>                       dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
>>                                       BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
>> diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
>> index 61a183b..fe8363e 100644
>> --- a/mm/truncate.c
>> +++ b/mm/truncate.c
>> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page, unsigned int account_size)
>>       if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
>>               struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;
>>               if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
>> +                     mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat(page, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_FILE_DIRTY);
>>                       dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
>>                       dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info,
>>                                       BDI_RECLAIMABLE);
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