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-rw-r--r--include/linux/memcontrol.h42
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c8
-rw-r--r--mm/vmscan.c3
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 3f8ff6519c9d..0301b231fd02 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -355,12 +355,49 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_disabled(void)
return !cgroup_subsys_enabled(memory_cgrp_subsys);
}
-static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root,
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
bool in_low_reclaim)
{
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return 0;
+ /*
+ * There is no reclaim protection applied to a targeted reclaim.
+ * We are special casing this specific case here because
+ * mem_cgroup_protected calculation is not robust enough to keep
+ * the protection invariant for calculated effective values for
+ * parallel reclaimers with different reclaim target. This is
+ * especially a problem for tail memcgs (as they have pages on LRU)
+ * which would want to have effective values 0 for targeted reclaim
+ * but a different value for external reclaim.
+ *
+ * Example
+ * Let's have global and A's reclaim in parallel:
+ * |
+ * A (low=2G, usage = 3G, max = 3G, children_low_usage = 1.5G)
+ * |\
+ * | C (low = 1G, usage = 2.5G)
+ * B (low = 1G, usage = 0.5G)
+ *
+ * For the global reclaim
+ * A.elow = A.low
+ * B.elow = min(B.usage, B.low) because children_low_usage <= A.elow
+ * C.elow = min(C.usage, C.low)
+ *
+ * With the effective values resetting we have A reclaim
+ * A.elow = 0
+ * B.elow = B.low
+ * C.elow = C.low
+ *
+ * If the global reclaim races with A's reclaim then
+ * B.elow = C.elow = 0 because children_low_usage > A.elow)
+ * is possible and reclaiming B would be violating the protection.
+ *
+ */
+ if (root == memcg)
+ return 0;
+
if (in_low_reclaim)
return READ_ONCE(memcg->memory.emin);
@@ -891,7 +928,8 @@ static inline void memcg_memory_event_mm(struct mm_struct *mm,
{
}
-static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+static inline unsigned long mem_cgroup_protection(struct mem_cgroup *root,
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
bool in_low_reclaim)
{
return 0;
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b4cb1bb61d46..c610617bb19a 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -6605,6 +6605,14 @@ enum mem_cgroup_protection mem_cgroup_protected(struct mem_cgroup *root,
if (!root)
root = root_mem_cgroup;
+
+ /*
+ * Effective values of the reclaim targets are ignored so they
+ * can be stale. Have a look at mem_cgroup_protection for more
+ * details.
+ * TODO: calculation should be more robust so that we do not need
+ * that special casing.
+ */
if (memcg == root)
return MEMCG_PROT_NONE;
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 2ac43664aba4..9f0811d24255 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -2331,7 +2331,8 @@ out:
unsigned long protection;
lruvec_size = lruvec_lru_size(lruvec, lru, sc->reclaim_idx);
- protection = mem_cgroup_protection(memcg,
+ protection = mem_cgroup_protection(sc->target_mem_cgroup,
+ memcg,
sc->memcg_low_reclaim);
if (protection) {