linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 6/7] workingset: memcg: sleep when flushing stats in workingset

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 04:00:36 +0000
From:   Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@...ux.dev>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/7] workingset: memcg: sleep when flushing stats in workingset_refault()

In workingset_refault(), we call mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed() to
flush stats within an RCU read section and with sleeping disallowed.
Move the call to mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed() above the RCU read
section and allow sleeping to avoid unnecessarily performing a lot of
work without sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
---

A lot of code paths call into workingset_refault(), so I am not
generally sure at all whether it's okay to sleep in all contexts or not.
Feedback here would be very helpful.

---
 mm/workingset.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/workingset.c b/mm/workingset.c
index 042eabbb43f6..410bc6684ea7 100644
--- a/mm/workingset.c
+++ b/mm/workingset.c
@@ -406,6 +406,8 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
 	unpack_shadow(shadow, &memcgid, &pgdat, &eviction, &workingset);
 	eviction <<= bucket_order;
 
+	/* Flush stats (and potentially sleep) before holding RCU read lock */
+	mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed(true);
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	/*
 	 * Look up the memcg associated with the stored ID. It might
@@ -461,9 +463,6 @@ void workingset_refault(struct folio *folio, void *shadow)
 	lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
 
 	mod_lruvec_state(lruvec, WORKINGSET_REFAULT_BASE + file, nr);
-
-	/* Do not sleep with RCU lock held */
-	mem_cgroup_flush_stats_delayed(false);
 	/*
 	 * Compare the distance to the existing workingset size. We
 	 * don't activate pages that couldn't stay resident even if
-- 
2.40.0.rc1.284.g88254d51c5-goog