Thread (32 messages) 32 messages, 3 authors, 2012-12-05
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[PATCH 2/4] memcg: prevent changes to move_charge_at_immigrate during task attach

From: Glauber Costa <hidden>
Date: 2012-11-30 13:31:40
Also in: linux-mm
Subsystem: control group - memory resource controller (memcg), memory management, the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton, Linus Torvalds

Currently, we rely on the cgroup_lock() to prevent changes to
move_charge_at_immigrate during task migration. We can do something
similar to what cpuset is doing, and flip a flag to tell us if task
movement is taking place.

In theory, we could busy loop waiting for that value to return to 0 - it
will eventually. But I am judging that returning EAGAIN is not too much
of a problem, since file writers already should be checking for error
codes anyway.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <redacted>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index feba87d..d80b6b5 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -311,7 +311,13 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 	 * Should we move charges of a task when a task is moved into this
 	 * mem_cgroup ? And what type of charges should we move ?
 	 */
-	unsigned long 	move_charge_at_immigrate;
+	unsigned long	move_charge_at_immigrate;
+        /*
+	 * Tasks are being attached to this memcg.  Used mostly to prevent
+	 * changes to move_charge_at_immigrate
+	 */
+        int attach_in_progress;
+
 	/*
 	 * set > 0 if pages under this cgroup are moving to other cgroup.
 	 */
@@ -4114,6 +4120,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 					struct cftype *cft, u64 val)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgrp);
+	int ret = -EAGAIN;
 
 	if (val >= (1 << NR_MOVE_TYPE))
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -4123,10 +4130,13 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup *cgrp,
 	 * inconsistent.
 	 */
 	cgroup_lock();
+	if (memcg->attach_in_progress)
+		goto out;
 	memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate = val;
+	ret = 0;
+out:
 	cgroup_unlock();
-
-	return 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 #else
 static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup *cgrp,
@@ -5443,12 +5453,12 @@ static void mem_cgroup_clear_mc(void)
 	mem_cgroup_end_move(from);
 }
 
-static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
-				 struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+
+static int __mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				   struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p = cgroup_taskset_first(tset);
 	int ret = 0;
-	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
 
 	if (memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate) {
 		struct mm_struct *mm;
@@ -5482,8 +5492,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void mem_cgroup_cancel_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
-				     struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+static void __mem_cgroup_cancel_attach(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				       struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
 	mem_cgroup_clear_mc();
 }
@@ -5630,8 +5640,8 @@ retry:
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 }
 
-static void mem_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup *cont,
-				 struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+static void __mem_cgroup_move_task(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				   struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p = cgroup_taskset_first(tset);
 	struct mm_struct *mm = get_task_mm(p);
@@ -5645,20 +5655,48 @@ static void mem_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup *cont,
 		mem_cgroup_clear_mc();
 }
 #else	/* !CONFIG_MMU */
+static int __mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				   struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void __mem_cgroup_cancel_attach(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				       struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+{
+}
+
+static void __mem_cgroup_move_task(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
+				   struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
+{
+}
+#endif
 static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 				 struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
-	return 0;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+
+	memcg->attach_in_progress++;
+	return __mem_cgroup_can_attach(memcg, tset);
 }
+
 static void mem_cgroup_cancel_attach(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 				     struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+
+	__mem_cgroup_cancel_attach(memcg, tset);
+	memcg->attach_in_progress--;
 }
-static void mem_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup *cont,
+
+static void mem_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup *cgroup,
 				 struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 {
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup);
+
+	__mem_cgroup_move_task(memcg, tset);
+	memcg->attach_in_progress--;
 }
-#endif
 
 struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys = {
 	.name = "memory",
-- 
1.7.11.7

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