linux-kernel - [v9 2/5] mm: implement mem_cgroup_scan

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Message-ID: <20170927130936.8601-3-guro@fb.com>
Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 14:09:33 +0100
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
        <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [v9 2/5] mm: implement mem_cgroup_scan_tasks() for the root memory cgroup

Implement mem_cgroup_scan_tasks() functionality for the root
memory cgroup to use this function for looking for a OOM victim
task in the root memory cgroup by the cgroup-ware OOM killer.

The root memory cgroup should be treated as a leaf cgroup,
so only tasks which are directly belonging to the root cgroup
should be iterated over.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: kernel-team@...com
Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index ae37b5624eb2..fa1a5120ce3f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -917,7 +917,8 @@ static void invalidate_reclaim_iterators(struct mem_cgroup *dead_memcg)
  * value, the function breaks the iteration loop and returns the value.
  * Otherwise, it will iterate over all tasks and return 0.
  *
- * This function must not be called for the root memory cgroup.
+ * If memcg is the root memory cgroup, this function will iterate only
+ * over tasks belonging directly to the root memory cgroup.
  */
 int mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 			  int (*fn)(struct task_struct *, void *), void *arg)
@@ -925,8 +926,6 @@ int mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 	struct mem_cgroup *iter;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	BUG_ON(memcg == root_mem_cgroup);
-
 	for_each_mem_cgroup_tree(iter, memcg) {
 		struct css_task_iter it;
 		struct task_struct *task;
@@ -935,7 +934,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_scan_tasks(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 		while (!ret && (task = css_task_iter_next(&it)))
 			ret = fn(task, arg);
 		css_task_iter_end(&it);
-		if (ret) {
+		if (ret || memcg == root_mem_cgroup) {
 			mem_cgroup_iter_break(memcg, iter);
 			break;
 		}
-- 
2.13.5