memcg: fix/change behavior of shared anon at moving task

This patch changes memcg's behavior at task_move().

At task_move(), the kernel scans a task's page table and move the changes
for mapped pages from source cgroup to target cgroup.  There has been a
bug at handling shared anonymous pages for a long time.

Before patch:
  - The spec says 'shared anonymous pages are not moved.'
  - The implementation was 'shared anonymoys pages may be moved'.
    If page_mapcount <=2, shared anonymous pages's charge were moved.

After patch:
  - The spec says 'all anonymous pages are moved'.
  - The implementation is 'all anonymous pages are moved'.

Considering usage of memcg, this will not affect user's experience.
'shared anonymous' pages only exists between a tree of processes which
don't do exec().  Moving one of process without exec() seems not sane.
For example, libcgroup will not be affected by this change.  (Anyway, no
one noticed the implementation for a long time...)

Below is a discussion log:

 - current spec/implementation are complex
 - Now, shared file caches are moved
 - It adds unclear check as page_mapcount(). To do correct check,
   we should check swap users, etc.
 - No one notice this implementation behavior. So, no one get benefit
   from the design.
 - In general, once task is moved to a cgroup for running, it will not
   be moved....
 - Finally, we have control knob as memory.move_charge_at_immigrate.

Here is a patch to allow moving shared pages, completely. This makes
memcg simpler and fix current broken code.

Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-05-29 15:06:51 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 181eb39425
commit 4b91355e9d
4 changed files with 18 additions and 53 deletions

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@@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ struct backing_dev_info;
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
extern void
mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent, bool swapout);
extern int mem_cgroup_count_swap_user(swp_entry_t ent, struct page **pagep);
#else
static inline void
mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent, bool swapout)
@@ -470,14 +469,6 @@ mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent)
{
}
#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
static inline int
mem_cgroup_count_swap_user(swp_entry_t ent, struct page **pagep)
{
return 0;
}
#endif
#endif /* CONFIG_SWAP */
#endif /* __KERNEL__*/
#endif /* _LINUX_SWAP_H */