On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:19:26 -0800 Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> wrote:

> >From 8b28d91475d54c552e503e66f169e1e00475c856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:43:48 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm: memcg/slab: pre-allocate obj_cgroups for slab
>  caches with SLAB_ACCOUNT
> 
> In general it's unknown in advance if a slab page will contain
> accounted objects or not. In order to avoid memory waste, an
> obj_cgroup vector is allocated dynamically when a need to account
> of a new object arises. Such approach is memory efficient, but
> requires an expensive cmpxchg() to set up the memcg/objcgs pointer,
> because an allocation can race with a different allocation on another
> cpu.
> 
> But in some common cases it's known for sure that a slab page will
> contain accounted objects: if the page belongs to a slab cache with a
> SLAB_ACCOUNT flag set. It includes such popular objects like
> vm_area_struct, anon_vma, task_struct, etc.
> 
> In such cases we can pre-allocate the objcgs vector and simple assign
> it to the page without any atomic operations, because at this early
> stage the page is not visible to anyone else.
> 
> v2: inline set_page_objcgs() and add some comments, by Johannes

Had me confused!  I was looking for the inlined function
set_page_objcgs().  I think "open-code" is a better term here than
"inline".

Here's the -fix:

From: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Subject: 
mm-memcg-slab-pre-allocate-obj_cgroups-for-slab-caches-with-slab_account-v2

open-code set_page_objcgs() and add some comments, by Johannes

Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 include/linux/memcontrol.h |   25 -------------------------
 mm/memcontrol.c            |   23 +++++++++++++++++++----
 mm/slab.h                  |    8 ++++----
 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

--- 
a/include/linux/memcontrol.h~mm-memcg-slab-pre-allocate-obj_cgroups-for-slab-caches-with-slab_account-v2
+++ a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -480,25 +480,6 @@ static inline struct obj_cgroup **page_o
        return (struct obj_cgroup **)(memcg_data & ~MEMCG_DATA_FLAGS_MASK);
 }
 
-/*
- * set_page_objcgs - associate a page with a object cgroups vector
- * @page: a pointer to the page struct
- * @objcgs: a pointer to the object cgroups vector
- * @atomic: save the value atomically
- *
- * Atomically associates a page with a vector of object cgroups.
- */
-static inline bool set_page_objcgs(struct page *page,
-                                  struct obj_cgroup **objcgs, bool atomic)
-{
-       unsigned long memcg_data = (unsigned long) objcgs | MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS;
-
-       if (atomic)
-               return !cmpxchg(&page->memcg_data, 0, memcg_data);
-
-       page->memcg_data = memcg_data;
-       return true;
-}
 #else
 static inline struct obj_cgroup **page_objcgs(struct page *page)
 {
@@ -509,12 +490,6 @@ static inline struct obj_cgroup **page_o
 {
        return NULL;
 }
-
-static inline bool set_page_objcgs(struct page *page,
-                                  struct obj_cgroup **objcgs, bool atomic)
-{
-       return true;
-}
 #endif
 
 static __always_inline bool memcg_stat_item_in_bytes(int idx)
--- 
a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-slab-pre-allocate-obj_cgroups-for-slab-caches-with-slab_account-v2
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2879,9 +2879,10 @@ static void commit_charge(struct page *p
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 int memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page, struct kmem_cache *s,
-                                gfp_t gfp, bool atomic)
+                                gfp_t gfp, bool new_page)
 {
        unsigned int objects = objs_per_slab_page(s, page);
+       unsigned long memcg_data;
        void *vec;
 
        vec = kcalloc_node(objects, sizeof(struct obj_cgroup *), gfp,
@@ -2889,11 +2890,25 @@ int memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(struct
        if (!vec)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       if (!set_page_objcgs(page, vec, atomic))
+       memcg_data = (unsigned long) vec | MEMCG_DATA_OBJCGS;
+       if (new_page) {
+               /*
+                * If the slab page is brand new and nobody can yet access
+                * it's memcg_data, no synchronization is required and
+                * memcg_data can be simply assigned.
+                */
+               page->memcg_data = memcg_data;
+       } else if (cmpxchg(&page->memcg_data, 0, memcg_data)) {
+               /*
+                * If the slab page is already in use, somebody can allocate
+                * and assign obj_cgroups in parallel. In this case the existing
+                * objcg vector should be reused.
+                */
                kfree(vec);
-       else
-               kmemleak_not_leak(vec);
+               return 0;
+       }
 
+       kmemleak_not_leak(vec);
        return 0;
 }
 
--- 
a/mm/slab.h~mm-memcg-slab-pre-allocate-obj_cgroups-for-slab-caches-with-slab_account-v2
+++ a/mm/slab.h
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ static inline bool kmem_cache_debug_flag
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 int memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page, struct kmem_cache *s,
-                                gfp_t gfp, bool atomic);
+                                gfp_t gfp, bool new_page);
 
 static inline void memcg_free_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page)
 {
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ static inline void memcg_slab_post_alloc
 
                        if (!page_objcgs(page) &&
                            memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(page, s, flags,
-                                                        true)) {
+                                                        false)) {
                                obj_cgroup_uncharge(objcg, obj_full_size(s));
                                continue;
                        }
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static inline struct mem_cgroup *memcg_f
 
 static inline int memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(struct page *page,
                                               struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfp,
-                                              bool atomic)
+                                              bool new_page)
 {
        return 0;
 }
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static __always_inline void account_slab
                                              gfp_t gfp)
 {
        if (memcg_kmem_enabled() && (s->flags & SLAB_ACCOUNT))
-               memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(page, s, gfp, false);
+               memcg_alloc_page_obj_cgroups(page, s, gfp, true);
 
        mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(page), cache_vmstat_idx(s),
                            PAGE_SIZE << order);
_

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