Re: [PATCH] mm: preallocate page before lock_page at filemap COW. (WasRe: [PATCH V2] mm: Do not keep page locked during page fault while charging it for memcg
From: Michal Hocko <hidden>
Date: 2011-06-24 07:57:46
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On Thu 23-06-11 19:01:57, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
From 7b0aa038f3a1c6a479a3ce6acb38c7d2740d7a75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:50:32 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] mm: preallocate page before lock_page() at filemap COW. Currently we are keeping faulted page locked throughout whole __do_fault call (except for page_mkwrite code path) after calling file system's fault code. If we do early COW, we allocate a new page which has to be charged for a memcg (mem_cgroup_newpage_charge). This function, however, might block for unbounded amount of time if memcg oom killer is disabled or fork-bomb is running because the only way out of the OOM situation is either an external event or OOM-situation fix. In the end we are keeping the faulted page locked and blocking other processes from faulting it in which is not good at all because we are basically punishing potentially an unrelated process for OOM condition in a different group (I have seen stuck system because of ld-2.11.1.so being locked). We can do test easily. % cgcreate -g memory:A % cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cgset -r memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cd kernel_dir; cgexec -g memory:A make -j Then, the whole system will live-locked until you kill 'make -j' by hands (or push reboot...) This is because some important page in a shared library are locked. Considering again, the new page is not necessary to be allocated with lock_page() held. So.... This patch moves "charge" and memory allocation for COW page before lock_page(). Then, we can avoid scanning LRU with holding a lock on a page. Then, above livelock disappears. Reported-by: Lutz Vieweg <redacted> Original-idea-by: Michal Hocko [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted>
Sorry, forgot to send my Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <redacted> I still have concerns about this way to handle the issue. See the follow up discussion in other thread (https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/23/135). Anyway I think that we do not have many other options to handle this. Either we unlock, charge, lock&restes or we preallocate, fault in Or am I missing some other ways how to do it? What do others think about these approaches?
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Changelog: - change the logic from "do charge after unlock" to "do charge before lock". --- mm/memory.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 87d9353..845378c 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c@@ -3127,14 +3127,34 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_t *page_table; spinlock_t *ptl; struct page *page; + struct page *cow_page; pte_t entry; int anon = 0; - int charged = 0; struct page *dirty_page = NULL; struct vm_fault vmf; int ret; int page_mkwrite = 0; + /* + * If we do COW later, allocate page befor taking lock_page() + * on the file cache page. This will reduce lock holding time. + */ + if ((flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) { + + if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) + return VM_FAULT_OOM; + + cow_page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, vma, address); + if (!cow_page) + return VM_FAULT_OOM; + + if (mem_cgroup_newpage_charge(cow_page, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) { + page_cache_release(cow_page); + return VM_FAULT_OOM; + } + } else + cow_page = NULL; + vmf.virtual_address = (void __user *)(address & PAGE_MASK); vmf.pgoff = pgoff; vmf.flags = flags;@@ -3143,12 +3163,13 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, &vmf); if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY))) - return ret; + goto uncharge_out; if (unlikely(PageHWPoison(vmf.page))) { if (ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED) unlock_page(vmf.page); - return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON; + ret = VM_FAULT_HWPOISON; + goto uncharge_out; } /*@@ -3166,23 +3187,8 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, page = vmf.page; if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) { if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) { + page = cow_page; anon = 1; - if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma))) { - ret = VM_FAULT_OOM; - goto out; - } - page = alloc_page_vma(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, - vma, address); - if (!page) { - ret = VM_FAULT_OOM; - goto out; - } - if (mem_cgroup_newpage_charge(page, mm, GFP_KERNEL)) { - ret = VM_FAULT_OOM; - page_cache_release(page); - goto out; - } - charged = 1; copy_user_highpage(page, vmf.page, address, vma); __SetPageUptodate(page); } else {@@ -3251,8 +3257,8 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, /* no need to invalidate: a not-present page won't be cached */ update_mmu_cache(vma, address, page_table); } else { - if (charged) - mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(page); + if (cow_page) + mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(cow_page); if (anon) page_cache_release(page); else@@ -3261,7 +3267,6 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma, pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl); -out: if (dirty_page) { struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping;@@ -3291,6 +3296,13 @@ out: unwritable_page: page_cache_release(page); return ret; +uncharge_out: + /* fs's fault handler get error */ + if (cow_page) { + mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(cow_page); + page_cache_release(cow_page); + } + return ret; } static int do_linear_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,-- 1.7.4.1 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
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