linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rfc 3/5] mm: memcontrol/slab: use helpers to access slab page's memcg

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Date:   Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:12:37 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc 3/5] mm: memcontrol/slab: use helpers to access slab
 page's memcg_data

On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:27 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> To gather all direct accesses to struct page's memcg_data field
> in one place, let's introduce 4 new helper functions to use in
> the slab accounting code:
>   struct obj_cgroup **page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page);
>   struct obj_cgroup **page_obj_cgroups_check(struct page *page);
>   bool set_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page, struct obj_cgroup **objcgs);
>   void clear_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page);
>
> They are similar to the corresponding API for generic pages, except
> that the setter can return false, indicating that the value has been
> already set from a different thread.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Nit below.

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>

> ---
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |  4 ++--
>  mm/slab.h                  | 27 +++------------------
>  3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index 0997220c84ce..48d4c2c1ce81 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -375,6 +375,54 @@ static inline void clear_page_mem_cgroup(struct page *page)
>         page->memcg_data = 0;
>  }
>

I think adding comments on these functions would be helpful.

> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
> +static inline struct obj_cgroup **page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page)
> +{
> +       return (struct obj_cgroup **)(page->memcg_data & ~0x1UL);
> +}
> +
> +static inline struct obj_cgroup **page_obj_cgroups_check(struct page *page)
> +{
> +       unsigned long memcg_data = page->memcg_data;
> +
> +       if (memcg_data && (memcg_data & 0x1UL))
> +               return (struct obj_cgroup **)memcg_data;
> +
> +       return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool set_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page,
> +                                       struct obj_cgroup **objcgs)
> +{
> +       return !cmpxchg(&page->memcg_data, 0, (unsigned long)objcgs | 0x1UL);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void clear_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page)
> +{
> +       page->memcg_data = 0;
> +}