[PATCH v5 2/2] writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes
From: Roman Gushchin <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-26 22:26:06
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linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), memory management, memory management - misc, page cache, the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Matthew Wilcox, Jan Kara, Linus Torvalds
Asynchronously try to release dying cgwbs by switching clean attached inodes to the bdi's wb. It helps to get rid of per-cgroup writeback structures themselves and of pinned memory and block cgroups, which are way larger structures (mostly due to large per-cpu statistics data). It helps to prevent memory waste and different scalability problems caused by large piles of dying cgroups. A cgwb cleanup operation can fail due to different reasons (e.g. the cgwb has in-glight/pending io, an attached inode is locked or isn't clean, etc). In this case the next scheduled cleanup will make a new attempt. An attempt is made each time a new cgwb is offlined (in other words a memcg and/or a blkcg is deleted by a user). In the future an additional attempt scheduled by a timer can be implemented. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <redacted> --- fs/fs-writeback.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h | 1 + include/linux/writeback.h | 1 + mm/backing-dev.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 4 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index 631ef6366293..8fbcd50844f0 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c@@ -577,6 +577,41 @@ static void inode_switch_wbs(struct inode *inode, int new_wb_id) kfree(isw); } +/** + * cleanup_offline_wb - detach associated clean inodes + * @wb: target wb + * + * Switch the inode->i_wb pointer of the attached inodes to the bdi's wb and + * drop the corresponding per-cgroup wb's reference. Skip inodes which are + * dirty, freeing, in the active writeback process or are in any way busy. + */ +void cleanup_offline_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb) +{ + struct inode *inode, *tmp; + + spin_lock(&wb->list_lock); +restart: + list_for_each_entry_safe(inode, tmp, &wb->b_attached, i_io_list) { + if (!spin_trylock(&inode->i_lock)) + continue; + xa_lock_irq(&inode->i_mapping->i_pages); + if ((inode->i_state & I_REFERENCED) != I_REFERENCED) { + struct bdi_writeback *bdi_wb = &inode_to_bdi(inode)->wb; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(inode->i_wb != wb); + + inode->i_wb = bdi_wb; + list_del_init(&inode->i_io_list); + wb_put(wb); + } + xa_unlock_irq(&inode->i_mapping->i_pages); + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); + if (cond_resched_lock(&wb->list_lock)) + goto restart; + } + spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock); +} + /** * wbc_attach_and_unlock_inode - associate wbc with target inode and unlock it * @wbc: writeback_control of interest
diff --git a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
index e5dc238ebe4f..07d6b6d6dbdf 100644
--- a/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/backing-dev-defs.h@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ struct bdi_writeback { struct list_head memcg_node; /* anchored at memcg->cgwb_list */ struct list_head blkcg_node; /* anchored at blkcg->cgwb_list */ struct list_head b_attached; /* attached inodes, protected by list_lock */ + struct list_head offline_node; /* anchored at offline_cgwbs */ union { struct work_struct release_work;
diff --git a/include/linux/writeback.h b/include/linux/writeback.h
index 572a13c40c90..922f15fe6ad4 100644
--- a/include/linux/writeback.h
+++ b/include/linux/writeback.h@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ void wbc_account_cgroup_owner(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page, int cgroup_writeback_by_id(u64 bdi_id, int memcg_id, unsigned long nr_pages, enum wb_reason reason, struct wb_completion *done); void cgroup_writeback_umount(void); +void cleanup_offline_wb(struct bdi_writeback *wb); /** * inode_attach_wb - associate an inode with its wb
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c
index 54c5dc4b8c24..92a00bcaa504 100644
--- a/mm/backing-dev.c
+++ b/mm/backing-dev.c@@ -371,12 +371,16 @@ static void wb_exit(struct bdi_writeback *wb) #include <linux/memcontrol.h> /* - * cgwb_lock protects bdi->cgwb_tree, blkcg->cgwb_list, and memcg->cgwb_list. - * bdi->cgwb_tree is also RCU protected. + * cgwb_lock protects bdi->cgwb_tree, blkcg->cgwb_list, offline_cgwbs and + * memcg->cgwb_list. bdi->cgwb_tree is also RCU protected. */ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgwb_lock); static struct workqueue_struct *cgwb_release_wq; +static LIST_HEAD(offline_cgwbs); +static void cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn(struct work_struct *work); +static DECLARE_WORK(cleanup_offline_cgwbs_work, cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn); + static void cgwb_release_workfn(struct work_struct *work) { struct bdi_writeback *wb = container_of(work, struct bdi_writeback,
@@ -395,6 +399,7 @@ static void cgwb_release_workfn(struct work_struct *work) fprop_local_destroy_percpu(&wb->memcg_completions); percpu_ref_exit(&wb->refcnt); + WARN_ON(!list_empty(&wb->offline_node)); wb_exit(wb); WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&wb->b_attached)); kfree_rcu(wb, rcu);
@@ -414,6 +419,10 @@ static void cgwb_kill(struct bdi_writeback *wb) WARN_ON(!radix_tree_delete(&wb->bdi->cgwb_tree, wb->memcg_css->id)); list_del(&wb->memcg_node); list_del(&wb->blkcg_node); + if (!list_empty(&wb->b_attached)) + list_add(&wb->offline_node, &offline_cgwbs); + else + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&wb->offline_node); percpu_ref_kill(&wb->refcnt); }
@@ -635,6 +644,50 @@ static void cgwb_bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) mutex_unlock(&bdi->cgwb_release_mutex); } +/** + * cleanup_offline_cgwbs - try to release dying cgwbs + * + * Try to release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes to the wb + * belonging to the root memory cgroup. Processed wbs are placed at the + * end of the list to guarantee the forward progress. + * + * Should be called with the acquired cgwb_lock lock, which might + * be released and re-acquired in the process. + */ +static void cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn(struct work_struct *work) +{ + struct bdi_writeback *wb; + LIST_HEAD(processed); + + spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + + while (!list_empty(&offline_cgwbs)) { + wb = list_first_entry(&offline_cgwbs, struct bdi_writeback, + offline_node); + list_move(&wb->offline_node, &processed); + + if (wb_has_dirty_io(wb)) + continue; + + if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&wb->refcnt)) + continue; + + spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + cleanup_offline_wb(wb); + spin_lock_irq(&cgwb_lock); + + if (list_empty(&wb->b_attached)) + list_del_init(&wb->offline_node); + + wb_put(wb); + } + + if (!list_empty(&processed)) + list_splice_tail(&processed, &offline_cgwbs); + + spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); +} + /** * wb_memcg_offline - kill all wb's associated with a memcg being offlined * @memcg: memcg being offlined
@@ -650,6 +703,10 @@ void wb_memcg_offline(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) list_for_each_entry_safe(wb, next, memcg_cgwb_list, memcg_node) cgwb_kill(wb); memcg_cgwb_list->next = NULL; /* prevent new wb's */ + + if (!list_empty(&offline_cgwbs)) + schedule_work(&cleanup_offline_cgwbs_work); + spin_unlock_irq(&cgwb_lock); }
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2.31.1