On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:16:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2018 13:10:02 +0200 Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > I would really prefer and appreciate a repost with all the fixes folded
> > in.
> 
> [1/2]
> 
> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
> Subject: memcg: replace mm->owner with mm->memcg
> 
> Recently it was reported that mm_update_next_owner could get into cases
> where it was executing its fallback for_each_process part of the loop and
> thus taking up a lot of time.

Reference?


> 
> To deal with this replace mm->owner with mm->memcg.  This just reduces the
> complexity of everything.

"the complexity of everything"?


> As much as possible I have maintained the
> current semantics.

"As much as possible"?


> There are two siginificant exceptions.

s/siginificant/significant


> During fork
> the memcg of the process calling fork is charged rather than init_css_set.
> During memory cgroup migration the charges are migrated not if the
> process is the owner of the mm, but if the process being migrated has the
> same memory cgroup as the mm.
> 
> I believe it was a bug

It was a bug or not??


> if init_css_set is charged for memory activity
> during fork, and the old behavior was simply a consequence of the new task
> not having tsk->cgroup not initialized to it's proper cgroup.
> 
> During cgroup migration only thread group leaders are allowed to migrate. 
> Which means in practice there should only be one.

"in practice there should"??


> Linux tasks created
> with CLONE_VM are the only exception, but the common cases are already
> ruled out.  Processes created with vfork have a suspended parent and can
> do nothing but call exec so they should never show up.  Threads of the
> same cgroup are not the thread group leader so also should not show up. 
> That leaves the old LinuxThreads library which is probably out of use by

"probably"???


> now, and someone doing something very creative with cgroups,

"very creative"?


> and rolling
> their own threads with CLONE_VM.  So in practice I don't think

"in practice I don't think"??

  Andrea


> the
> difference charge migration will affect anyone.
> 
> To ensure that mm->memcg is updated appropriately I have implemented
> cgroup "attach" and "fork" methods.  This ensures that at those points the
> mm pointed to the task has the appropriate memory cgroup.
> 
> For simplicity instead of introducing a new mm lock I simply use exchange
> on the pointer where the mm->memcg is updated to get atomic updates.
> 
> Looking at the history effectively this change is a revert.  The reason
> given for adding mm->owner is so that multiple cgroups can be attached to
> the same mm.  In the last 8 years a second user of mm->owner has not
> appeared.  A feature that has never used, makes the code more complicated
> and has horrible worst case performance should go.
> 
> [ebied...@xmission.com: update to work when !CONFIG_MMU]
>   Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87lgczcox0.fsf...@xmission.com
> [ebied...@xmission.com: close race between migration and installing bprm->mm 
> as mm]
>   Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87fu37cow4.fsf...@xmission.com
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87lgd1zww0.fsf...@xmission.com
> Fixes: cf475ad28ac3 ("cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct")
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
> Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <o...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  fs/exec.c                  |    3 -
>  include/linux/memcontrol.h |   16 +++++-
>  include/linux/mm_types.h   |   12 ----
>  include/linux/sched/mm.h   |    8 ---
>  kernel/exit.c              |   89 -----------------------------------
>  kernel/fork.c              |   17 +++++-
>  mm/debug.c                 |    4 -
>  mm/memcontrol.c            |   81 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  8 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 137 deletions(-)
> 
> diff -puN fs/exec.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg fs/exec.c
> --- a/fs/exec.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1040,11 +1040,12 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *m
>               up_read(&old_mm->mmap_sem);
>               BUG_ON(active_mm != old_mm);
>               setmax_mm_hiwater_rss(&tsk->signal->maxrss, old_mm);
> -             mm_update_next_owner(old_mm);
>               mmput(old_mm);
>               return 0;
>       }
>       mmdrop(active_mm);
> +     /* The tsk may have migrated before the new mm was attached */
> +     mm_sync_memcg_from_task(tsk);
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> diff -puN include/linux/memcontrol.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg 
> include/linux/memcontrol.h
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -345,7 +345,6 @@ out:
>  struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(struct page *, struct pglist_data *);
>  
>  bool task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
> -struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p);
>  
>  struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm);
>  
> @@ -408,6 +407,9 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_is_descend
>       return cgroup_is_descendant(memcg->css.cgroup, root->css.cgroup);
>  }
>  
> +void mm_update_memcg(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mem_cgroup *new);
> +void mm_sync_memcg_from_task(struct task_struct *tsk);
> +
>  static inline bool mm_match_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm,
>                                  struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
> @@ -415,7 +417,7 @@ static inline bool mm_match_cgroup(struc
>       bool match = false;
>  
>       rcu_read_lock();
> -     task_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> +     task_memcg = rcu_dereference(mm->memcg);
>       if (task_memcg)
>               match = mem_cgroup_is_descendant(task_memcg, memcg);
>       rcu_read_unlock();
> @@ -699,7 +701,7 @@ static inline void count_memcg_event_mm(
>               return;
>  
>       rcu_read_lock();
> -     memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> +     memcg = rcu_dereference(mm->memcg);
>       if (likely(memcg)) {
>               count_memcg_events(memcg, idx, 1);
>               if (idx == OOM_KILL)
> @@ -787,6 +789,14 @@ static inline struct lruvec *mem_cgroup_
>       return &pgdat->lruvec;
>  }
>  
> +static inline void mm_update_memcg(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mem_cgroup 
> *new)
> +{
> +}
> +
> +static inline void mm_sync_memcg_from_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +}
> +
>  static inline bool mm_match_cgroup(struct mm_struct *mm,
>               struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>  {
> diff -puN include/linux/mm_types.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg 
> include/linux/mm_types.h
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -445,17 +445,7 @@ struct mm_struct {
>       struct kioctx_table __rcu       *ioctx_table;
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -     /*
> -      * "owner" points to a task that is regarded as the canonical
> -      * user/owner of this mm. All of the following must be true in
> -      * order for it to be changed:
> -      *
> -      * current == mm->owner
> -      * current->mm != mm
> -      * new_owner->mm == mm
> -      * new_owner->alloc_lock is held
> -      */
> -     struct task_struct __rcu *owner;
> +     struct mem_cgroup __rcu *memcg;
>  #endif
>       struct user_namespace *user_ns;
>  
> diff -puN include/linux/sched/mm.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg 
> include/linux/sched/mm.h
> --- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
> @@ -95,14 +95,6 @@ extern struct mm_struct *mm_access(struc
>  /* Remove the current tasks stale references to the old mm_struct */
>  extern void mm_release(struct task_struct *, struct mm_struct *);
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -extern void mm_update_next_owner(struct mm_struct *mm);
> -#else
> -static inline void mm_update_next_owner(struct mm_struct *mm)
> -{
> -}
> -#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> -
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>  extern void arch_pick_mmap_layout(struct mm_struct *mm,
>                                 struct rlimit *rlim_stack);
> diff -puN kernel/exit.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg kernel/exit.c
> --- a/kernel/exit.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -399,94 +399,6 @@ kill_orphaned_pgrp(struct task_struct *t
>       }
>  }
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -/*
> - * A task is exiting.   If it owned this mm, find a new owner for the mm.
> - */
> -void mm_update_next_owner(struct mm_struct *mm)
> -{
> -     struct task_struct *c, *g, *p = current;
> -
> -retry:
> -     /*
> -      * If the exiting or execing task is not the owner, it's
> -      * someone else's problem.
> -      */
> -     if (mm->owner != p)
> -             return;
> -     /*
> -      * The current owner is exiting/execing and there are no other
> -      * candidates.  Do not leave the mm pointing to a possibly
> -      * freed task structure.
> -      */
> -     if (atomic_read(&mm->mm_users) <= 1) {
> -             mm->owner = NULL;
> -             return;
> -     }
> -
> -     read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
> -     /*
> -      * Search in the children
> -      */
> -     list_for_each_entry(c, &p->children, sibling) {
> -             if (c->mm == mm)
> -                     goto assign_new_owner;
> -     }
> -
> -     /*
> -      * Search in the siblings
> -      */
> -     list_for_each_entry(c, &p->real_parent->children, sibling) {
> -             if (c->mm == mm)
> -                     goto assign_new_owner;
> -     }
> -
> -     /*
> -      * Search through everything else, we should not get here often.
> -      */
> -     for_each_process(g) {
> -             if (g->flags & PF_KTHREAD)
> -                     continue;
> -             for_each_thread(g, c) {
> -                     if (c->mm == mm)
> -                             goto assign_new_owner;
> -                     if (c->mm)
> -                             break;
> -             }
> -     }
> -     read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> -     /*
> -      * We found no owner yet mm_users > 1: this implies that we are
> -      * most likely racing with swapoff (try_to_unuse()) or /proc or
> -      * ptrace or page migration (get_task_mm()).  Mark owner as NULL.
> -      */
> -     mm->owner = NULL;
> -     return;
> -
> -assign_new_owner:
> -     BUG_ON(c == p);
> -     get_task_struct(c);
> -     /*
> -      * The task_lock protects c->mm from changing.
> -      * We always want mm->owner->mm == mm
> -      */
> -     task_lock(c);
> -     /*
> -      * Delay read_unlock() till we have the task_lock()
> -      * to ensure that c does not slip away underneath us
> -      */
> -     read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
> -     if (c->mm != mm) {
> -             task_unlock(c);
> -             put_task_struct(c);
> -             goto retry;
> -     }
> -     mm->owner = c;
> -     task_unlock(c);
> -     put_task_struct(c);
> -}
> -#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> -
>  /*
>   * Turn us into a lazy TLB process if we
>   * aren't already..
> @@ -540,7 +452,6 @@ static void exit_mm(void)
>       up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>       enter_lazy_tlb(mm, current);
>       task_unlock(current);
> -     mm_update_next_owner(mm);
>       mmput(mm);
>       if (test_thread_flag(TIF_MEMDIE))
>               exit_oom_victim();
> diff -puN kernel/fork.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg kernel/fork.c
> --- a/kernel/fork.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -878,10 +878,19 @@ static void mm_init_aio(struct mm_struct
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> -static void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
> +static void mm_init_memcg(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -     mm->owner = p;
> +     struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> +
> +     /* Ensure mm->memcg is initialized */
> +     mm->memcg = NULL;
> +
> +     rcu_read_lock();
> +     css = task_css(current, memory_cgrp_id);
> +     if (css && css_tryget(css))
> +             mm_update_memcg(mm, mem_cgroup_from_css(css));
> +     rcu_read_unlock();
>  #endif
>  }
>  
> @@ -912,7 +921,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct
>       spin_lock_init(&mm->arg_lock);
>       mm_init_cpumask(mm);
>       mm_init_aio(mm);
> -     mm_init_owner(mm, p);
> +     mm_init_memcg(mm);
>       RCU_INIT_POINTER(mm->exe_file, NULL);
>       mmu_notifier_mm_init(mm);
>       hmm_mm_init(mm);
> @@ -942,6 +951,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct
>  fail_nocontext:
>       mm_free_pgd(mm);
>  fail_nopgd:
> +     mm_update_memcg(mm, NULL);
>       free_mm(mm);
>       return NULL;
>  }
> @@ -979,6 +989,7 @@ static inline void __mmput(struct mm_str
>       }
>       if (mm->binfmt)
>               module_put(mm->binfmt->module);
> +     mm_update_memcg(mm, NULL);
>       mmdrop(mm);
>  }
>  
> diff -puN mm/debug.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg mm/debug.c
> --- a/mm/debug.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/mm/debug.c
> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
>               "ioctx_table %px\n"
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -             "owner %px "
> +             "memcg %px "
>  #endif
>               "exe_file %px\n"
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
>               mm->ioctx_table,
>  #endif
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> -             mm->owner,
> +             mm->memcg,
>  #endif
>               mm->exe_file,
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER
> diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg mm/memcontrol.c
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-replace-mm-owner-with-mm-memcg
> +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -664,20 +664,6 @@ static void memcg_check_events(struct me
>       }
>  }
>  
> -struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
> -{
> -     /*
> -      * mm_update_next_owner() may clear mm->owner to NULL
> -      * if it races with swapoff, page migration, etc.
> -      * So this can be called with p == NULL.
> -      */
> -     if (unlikely(!p))
> -             return NULL;
> -
> -     return mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(p, memory_cgrp_id));
> -}
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_from_task);
> -
>  struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>       struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
> @@ -692,7 +678,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_m
>               if (unlikely(!mm))
>                       memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
>               else {
> -                     memcg = 
> mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
> +                     memcg = rcu_dereference(mm->memcg);
>                       if (unlikely(!memcg))
>                               memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
>               }
> @@ -1025,7 +1011,7 @@ bool task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_stru
>                * killed to prevent needlessly killing additional tasks.
>                */
>               rcu_read_lock();
> -             task_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(task);
> +             task_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(task, 
> memory_cgrp_id));
>               css_get(&task_memcg->css);
>               rcu_read_unlock();
>       }
> @@ -4850,15 +4836,16 @@ static int mem_cgroup_can_attach(struct
>       if (!move_flags)
>               return 0;
>  
> -     from = mem_cgroup_from_task(p);
> +     from = mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(p, memory_cgrp_id));
>  
>       VM_BUG_ON(from == memcg);
>  
>       mm = get_task_mm(p);
>       if (!mm)
>               return 0;
> -     /* We move charges only when we move a owner of the mm */
> -     if (mm->owner == p) {
> +
> +     /* We move charges except for creative uses of CLONE_VM */
> +     if (mm->memcg == from) {
>               VM_BUG_ON(mc.from);
>               VM_BUG_ON(mc.to);
>               VM_BUG_ON(mc.precharge);
> @@ -5058,6 +5045,58 @@ static void mem_cgroup_move_task(void)
>  }
>  #endif
>  
> +/**
> + * mm_update_memcg - Update the memory cgroup of a mm_struct
> + * @mm: mm struct
> + * @new: new memory cgroup value
> + *
> + * Called whenever mm->memcg needs to change.   Consumes a reference
> + * to new (unless new is NULL).   The reference to the old memory
> + * cgroup is decreased.
> + */
> +void mm_update_memcg(struct mm_struct *mm, struct mem_cgroup *new)
> +{
> +     /* This is the only place where mm->memcg is changed */
> +     struct mem_cgroup *old;
> +
> +     old = xchg(&mm->memcg, new);
> +     if (old)
> +             css_put(&old->css);
> +}
> +
> +static void task_update_memcg(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mem_cgroup 
> *new)
> +{
> +     struct mm_struct *mm;
> +     task_lock(tsk);
> +     mm = tsk->mm;
> +     if (mm && !(tsk->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
> +             mm_update_memcg(mm, new);
> +     task_unlock(tsk);
> +}
> +
> +static void mem_cgroup_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
> +{
> +     struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> +     struct task_struct *tsk;
> +
> +     cgroup_taskset_for_each(tsk, css, tset) {
> +             struct mem_cgroup *new = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
> +             css_get(css);
> +             task_update_memcg(tsk, new);
> +     }
> +}
> +
> +void mm_sync_memcg_from_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
> +{
> +     struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> +
> +     rcu_read_lock();
> +     css = task_css(tsk, memory_cgrp_id);
> +     if (css && css_tryget(css))
> +             task_update_memcg(tsk, mem_cgroup_from_css(css));
> +     rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Cgroup retains root cgroups across [un]mount cycles making it necessary
>   * to verify whether we're attached to the default hierarchy on each mount
> @@ -5358,8 +5397,10 @@ struct cgroup_subsys memory_cgrp_subsys
>       .css_free = mem_cgroup_css_free,
>       .css_reset = mem_cgroup_css_reset,
>       .can_attach = mem_cgroup_can_attach,
> +     .attach = mem_cgroup_attach,
>       .cancel_attach = mem_cgroup_cancel_attach,
>       .post_attach = mem_cgroup_move_task,
> +     .fork = mm_sync_memcg_from_task,
>       .bind = mem_cgroup_bind,
>       .dfl_cftypes = memory_files,
>       .legacy_cftypes = mem_cgroup_legacy_files,
> @@ -5846,7 +5887,7 @@ void mem_cgroup_sk_alloc(struct sock *sk
>       }
>  
>       rcu_read_lock();
> -     memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(current);
> +     memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(current, memory_cgrp_id));
>       if (memcg == root_mem_cgroup)
>               goto out;
>       if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !memcg->tcpmem_active)
> _
> 

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