linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mm/swap: always account swapped in page into current memcg

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Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 17:42:43 +0800
From: Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Chris Li <chrisl@...nel.org>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, 
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, 
	Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] mm/swap: always account swapped in page into
 current memcg

Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> 于2024年1月8日周一 15:46写道：
>
> Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com> writes:
>
> > Huang, Ying <ying.huang@...el.com> 于2024年1月5日周五 15:16写道：
> >>
> >> Kairui Song <ryncsn@...il.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> >> >
> >> > Currently, mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio is always called with
> >> > mm argument as NULL, except in swapin_direct.
> >> >
> >> > swapin_direct is used when swapin should skip readahead and
> >> > swapcache (SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO). Other caller paths of
> >> > mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio are for swapin that should
> >> > not skip readahead and cache.
> >> >
> >> > This could cause swapin charging to behave differently depending
> >> > on swap device. This currently didn't happen because the only call
> >> > path of swapin_direct is the direct anon page fault path, where mm
> >> > equals to current->mm, but will no longer be true if swapin_direct
> >> > is shared and have other callers (eg, swapoff).
> >> >
> >> > So make swapin_direct also passes NULL for mm, no feature change.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@...cent.com>
> >> > ---
> >> >  mm/swap_state.c | 2 +-
> >> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >> >
> >> > diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
> >> > index 6130de8d5226..d39c5369da21 100644
> >> > --- a/mm/swap_state.c
> >> > +++ b/mm/swap_state.c
> >> > @@ -881,7 +881,7 @@ struct folio *swapin_direct(swp_entry_t entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >> >       folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0,
> >> >                               vma, vmf->address, false);
> >> >       if (folio) {
> >> > -             if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, vma->vm_mm,
> >> > +             if (mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio(folio, NULL,
> >> >                                                  GFP_KERNEL, entry)) {
> >> >                       folio_put(folio);
> >> >                       return NULL;
> >>
> >> I think that why not provide "mm" when it's available?  For
> >> swapin_direct() called by do_swap_page(), mm can be provided.  While,
> >> for swapin_direct() called by shmem swapin, mm will be NULL.  We can
> >> even provide "mm" for __read_swap_cache_async() for VMA based swapin and
> >> for the fault address for cluster swapin.
> >
> > Hi, Ying.
> >
> > Thanks for the comment.
> >
> > Without modifying too much code, providing mm here will change swapin
> > charge behaviour on swapoff, we discussed it previously:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/11/19/320
>
> It's better to use "lore" for kernel email link, for example,
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231119194740.94101-24-ryncsn@gmail.com/
>
> This is more readable than the above link.

Hi Ying,

Thanks for your advice.

>
> > If we want to avoid the behavior change, we have to extend all direct
> > and indirect callers of mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio to accept a
> > standalone mm argument (including swapin_direct, swap_vma_readahead,
> > swap_cluster_readahead, __read_swap_cache_async, swapin_entry_mpol,
> > read_swap_cache_async, and some other path may need more audit), and
> > sort things our case by case. I'm not sure if that's a good idea...
> >
> > Simply dropping it here seems the easiest way to avoid such change.
>
> OK.  Didn't realize that they are related directly.  It appears that we
> always pass NULL as mm to mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_folio().  If so,
> please just remove the parameter.

Yes, that's also what I wanted.

>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Huang, Ying