linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: vmscan: pass root_mem_cgroup instead of NULL to memcg aware shrinker

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Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2016 16:55:50 +0300
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: vmscan: pass root_mem_cgroup instead of NULL to memcg aware shrinker

It's just convenient to implement a memcg aware shrinker when you know
that shrink_control->memcg != NULL unless memcg_kmem_enabled() returns
false.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 18b3767136f4..bae8f32ad9cb 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -382,9 +382,8 @@ static unsigned long do_shrink_slab(struct shrink_control *shrinkctl,
  *
  * @memcg specifies the memory cgroup to target. If it is not NULL,
  * only shrinkers with SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE set will be called to scan
- * objects from the memory cgroup specified. Otherwise all shrinkers
- * are called, and memcg aware shrinkers are supposed to scan the
- * global list then.
+ * objects from the memory cgroup specified. Otherwise, only unaware
+ * shrinkers are called.
  *
  * @nr_scanned and @nr_eligible form a ratio that indicate how much of
  * the available objects should be scanned.  Page reclaim for example
@@ -404,7 +403,7 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 	struct shrinker *shrinker;
 	unsigned long freed = 0;
 
-	if (memcg && !memcg_kmem_online(memcg))
+	if (memcg && (!memcg_kmem_enabled() || !mem_cgroup_online(memcg)))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (nr_scanned == 0)
@@ -428,7 +427,13 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 			.memcg = memcg,
 		};
 
-		if (memcg && !(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE))
+		/*
+		 * If kernel memory accounting is disabled, we ignore
+		 * SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag and call all shrinkers
+		 * passing NULL for memcg.
+		 */
+		if (memcg_kmem_enabled() &&
+		    !!memcg != !!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE))
 			continue;
 
 		if (!(shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE))
-- 
2.1.4