memory controller: soft limit interface

Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits.  Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported.  Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added.  Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.

Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter.  Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here.  Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
index 511f42fc681..fcb9884df61 100644
--- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ struct res_counter {
 	 */
 	unsigned long long limit;
 	/*
+	 * the limit that usage can be exceed
+	 */
+	unsigned long long soft_limit;
+	/*
 	 * the number of unsuccessful attempts to consume the resource
 	 */
 	unsigned long long failcnt;
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@ enum {
 	RES_MAX_USAGE,
 	RES_LIMIT,
 	RES_FAILCNT,
+	RES_SOFT_LIMIT,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -132,6 +137,36 @@ static inline bool res_counter_limit_check_locked(struct res_counter *cnt)
 	return false;
 }
 
+static inline bool res_counter_soft_limit_check_locked(struct res_counter *cnt)
+{
+	if (cnt->usage < cnt->soft_limit)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the difference between the usage and the soft limit
+ * @cnt: The counter
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if usage is less than or equal to soft limit
+ * The difference between usage and soft limit, otherwise.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long long
+res_counter_soft_limit_excess(struct res_counter *cnt)
+{
+	unsigned long long excess;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	if (cnt->usage <= cnt->soft_limit)
+		excess = 0;
+	else
+		excess = cnt->usage - cnt->soft_limit;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	return excess;
+}
+
 /*
  * Helper function to detect if the cgroup is within it's limit or
  * not. It's currently called from cgroup_rss_prepare()
@@ -147,6 +182,17 @@ static inline bool res_counter_check_under_limit(struct res_counter *cnt)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static inline bool res_counter_check_under_soft_limit(struct res_counter *cnt)
+{
+	bool ret;
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	ret = res_counter_soft_limit_check_locked(cnt);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static inline void res_counter_reset_max(struct res_counter *cnt)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
@@ -180,4 +226,16 @@ static inline int res_counter_set_limit(struct res_counter *cnt,
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static inline int
+res_counter_set_soft_limit(struct res_counter *cnt,
+				unsigned long long soft_limit)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	cnt->soft_limit = soft_limit;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cnt->lock, flags);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #endif