On 04.02.2021 12:29, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> On 03.02.2021 20:20, Yang Shi wrote:
>> Now nr_deferred is available on per memcg level for memcg aware shrinkers,
>> so don't need
>> allocate shrinker->nr_deferred for such shrinkers anymore.
>>
>> The prealloc_memcg_shrinker() would return -ENOSYS if !CONFIG_MEMCG or memcg
>> is disabled
>> by kernel command line, then shrinker's SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag would be
>> cleared.
>> This makes the implementation of this patch simpler.
>>
>> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vba...@suse.cz>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828...@gmail.com>
>> ---
>> mm/vmscan.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++---------------
>> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
>> index 545422d2aeec..20a35d26ae12 100644
>> --- a/mm/vmscan.c
>> +++ b/mm/vmscan.c
>> @@ -334,6 +334,9 @@ static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker
>> *shrinker)
>> {
>> int id, ret = -ENOMEM;
>>
>> + if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
>> + return -ENOSYS;
>> +
>> down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
>> /* This may call shrinker, so it must use down_read_trylock() */
>> id = idr_alloc(&shrinker_idr, shrinker, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
>> @@ -414,7 +417,7 @@ static bool writeback_throttling_sane(struct
>> scan_control *sc)
>> #else
>> static int prealloc_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>> {
>> - return 0;
>> + return -ENOSYS;
>> }
>>
>> static void unregister_memcg_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>> @@ -525,8 +528,18 @@ unsigned long lruvec_lru_size(struct lruvec *lruvec,
>> enum lru_list lru, int zone
>> */
>> int prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>> {
>> - unsigned int size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
>> + unsigned int size;
>> + int err;
>> +
>> + if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) {
>> + err = prealloc_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
>> + if (err != -ENOSYS)
>> + return err;
>>
>> + shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE;
>> + }
>> +
>> + size = sizeof(*shrinker->nr_deferred);
>> if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE)
>> size *= nr_node_ids;
>
> This may sound surprisingly, but IIRC do_shrink_slab() may be called on early
> boot
> *even before* root_mem_cgroup is allocated. AFAIR, I received syzcaller crash
> report
> because of this, when I was implementing shrinker_maps.
>
> This is a reason why we don't use shrinker_maps even in case of mem cgroup is
> not
> disabled: we iterate every shrinker of shrinker_list. See check in
> shrink_slab():
>
> if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
>
> Possible, we should do the same for nr_deferred: 1)always allocate
> shrinker->nr_deferred,
> 2)use shrinker->nr_deferred in count_nr_deferred() and set_nr_deferred().
I looked over my mail box, and I can't find that crash report and conditions to
reproduce.
Hm, let's remain this as is, and we rework this in case of such early shrinker
call is still
possible, and there will be a report...
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktk...@virtuozzo.com>
With only nit:
>>
>> @@ -534,26 +547,14 @@ int prealloc_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>> if (!shrinker->nr_deferred)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> - if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) {
>> - if (prealloc_memcg_shrinker(shrinker))
>> - goto free_deferred;
>> - }
>>
>> return 0;
>> -
>> -free_deferred:
>> - kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
>> - shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
>> - return -ENOMEM;
>> }
>>
>> void free_prealloced_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
>> {
>> - if (!shrinker->nr_deferred)
>> - return;
>> -
>> if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE)
>> - unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
>> + return unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker);
I've never seen return of void function in linux kernel. I'm not sure this
won't confuse people.
>>
>> kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
>> shrinker->nr_deferred = NULL;
>>
>
