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authorDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>2009-04-30 15:08:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-05-02 15:36:09 -0700
commitae3abae64f177586be55b04a7fb7047a34b21a3e (patch)
tree05ba2ef8dca958cc4a02ac08e5aae03b8bc82a81 /mm/memcontrol.c
parent0816178638c15ce5472d39d771a96860dff4141a (diff)
memcg: fix mem_cgroup_shrink_usage()
Current mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() has two problems. 1. It doesn't call mem_cgroup_out_of_memory and doesn't update last_oom_jiffies, so pagefault_out_of_memory invokes global OOM. 2. Considering hierarchy, shrinking has to be done from the mem_over_limit, not from the memcg which the page would be charged to. mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() does all of these things properly, so we use it and call cancel_charge_swapin when it succeeded. The name of "shrink_usage" is not appropriate for this behavior, so we change it too. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.cn> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c33
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 575203ae210..01c2d8f1468 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1617,37 +1617,28 @@ void mem_cgroup_end_migration(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
}
/*
- * A call to try to shrink memory usage under specified resource controller.
- * This is typically used for page reclaiming for shmem for reducing side
- * effect of page allocation from shmem, which is used by some mem_cgroup.
+ * A call to try to shrink memory usage on charge failure at shmem's swapin.
+ * Calling hierarchical_reclaim is not enough because we should update
+ * last_oom_jiffies to prevent pagefault_out_of_memory from invoking global OOM.
+ * Moreover considering hierarchy, we should reclaim from the mem_over_limit,
+ * not from the memcg which this page would be charged to.
+ * try_charge_swapin does all of these works properly.
*/
-int mem_cgroup_shrink_usage(struct page *page,
+int mem_cgroup_shmem_charge_fallback(struct page *page,
struct mm_struct *mm,
gfp_t gfp_mask)
{
struct mem_cgroup *mem = NULL;
- int progress = 0;
- int retry = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES;
+ int ret;
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
return 0;
- if (page)
- mem = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache(page);
- if (!mem && mm)
- mem = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(mm);
- if (unlikely(!mem))
- return 0;
- do {
- progress = mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim(mem,
- gfp_mask, true, false);
- progress += mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(mem);
- } while (!progress && --retry);
+ ret = mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(mm, page, gfp_mask, &mem);
+ if (!ret)
+ mem_cgroup_cancel_charge_swapin(mem); /* it does !mem check */
- css_put(&mem->css);
- if (!retry)
- return -ENOMEM;
- return 0;
+ return ret;
}
static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_limit_mutex);