memcg: synchronized LRU

A big patch for changing memcg's LRU semantics.

Now,
  - page_cgroup is linked to mem_cgroup's its own LRU (per zone).

  - LRU of page_cgroup is not synchronous with global LRU.

  - page and page_cgroup is one-to-one and statically allocated.

  - To find page_cgroup is on what LRU, you have to check pc->mem_cgroup as
    - lru = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc, nid_of_pc, zid_of_pc);

  - SwapCache is handled.

And, when we handle LRU list of page_cgroup, we do following.

	pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
	lock_page_cgroup(pc); .....................(1)
	mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
	spin_lock(&mz->lru_lock);
	.....add to LRU
	spin_unlock(&mz->lru_lock);
	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);

But (1) is spin_lock and we have to be afraid of dead-lock with zone->lru_lock.
So, trylock() is used at (1), now. Without (1), we can't trust "mz" is correct.

This is a trial to remove this dirty nesting of locks.
This patch changes mz->lru_lock to be zone->lru_lock.
Then, above sequence will be written as

        spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU
	mem_cgroup_add/remove/etc_lru() {
		pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
		mz = page_cgroup_zoneinfo(pc);
		if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
			....add to LRU
		}
        spin_lock(&zone->lru_lock); # in vmscan.c or swap.c via global LRU

This is much simpler.
(*) We're safe even if we don't take lock_page_cgroup(pc). Because..
    1. When pc->mem_cgroup can be modified.
       - at charge.
       - at account_move().
    2. at charge
       the PCG_USED bit is not set before pc->mem_cgroup is fixed.
    3. at account_move()
       the page is isolated and not on LRU.

Pros.
  - easy for maintenance.
  - memcg can make use of laziness of pagevec.
  - we don't have to duplicated LRU/Active/Unevictable bit in page_cgroup.
  - LRU status of memcg will be synchronized with global LRU's one.
  - # of locks are reduced.
  - account_move() is simplified very much.
Cons.
  - may increase cost of LRU rotation.
    (no impact if memcg is not configured.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
index d754b2dfbf2..602cc1fdee9 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
@@ -26,10 +26,6 @@ enum {
 	PCG_LOCK,  /* page cgroup is locked */
 	PCG_CACHE, /* charged as cache */
 	PCG_USED, /* this object is in use. */
-	/* flags for LRU placement */
-	PCG_ACTIVE, /* page is active in this cgroup */
-	PCG_FILE, /* page is file system backed */
-	PCG_UNEVICTABLE, /* page is unevictableable */
 };
 
 #define TESTPCGFLAG(uname, lname)			\
@@ -50,19 +46,6 @@ TESTPCGFLAG(Cache, CACHE)
 TESTPCGFLAG(Used, USED)
 CLEARPCGFLAG(Used, USED)
 
-/* LRU management flags (from global-lru definition) */
-TESTPCGFLAG(File, FILE)
-SETPCGFLAG(File, FILE)
-CLEARPCGFLAG(File, FILE)
-
-TESTPCGFLAG(Active, ACTIVE)
-SETPCGFLAG(Active, ACTIVE)
-CLEARPCGFLAG(Active, ACTIVE)
-
-TESTPCGFLAG(Unevictable, UNEVICTABLE)
-SETPCGFLAG(Unevictable, UNEVICTABLE)
-CLEARPCGFLAG(Unevictable, UNEVICTABLE)
-
 static inline int page_cgroup_nid(struct page_cgroup *pc)
 {
 	return page_to_nid(pc->page);