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-Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2008/12/15
-Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm.
-
-Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
-is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
-Please note that implementation details can be changed.
-
-(*) Topics on API should be in Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
-
-0. How to record usage ?
- 2 objects are used.
-
- page_cgroup ....an object per page.
- Allocated at boot or memory hotplug. Freed at memory hot removal.
-
- swap_cgroup ... an entry per swp_entry.
- Allocated at swapon(). Freed at swapoff().
-
- The page_cgroup has USED bit and double count against a page_cgroup never
- occurs. swap_cgroup is used only when a charged page is swapped-out.
-
-1. Charge
-
- a page/swp_entry may be charged (usage += PAGE_SIZE) at
-
- mem_cgroup_newpage_charge()
- Called at new page fault and Copy-On-Write.
-
- mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin()
- Called at do_swap_page() (page fault on swap entry) and swapoff.
- Followed by charge-commit-cancel protocol. (With swap accounting)
- At commit, a charge recorded in swap_cgroup is removed.
-
- mem_cgroup_cache_charge()
- Called at add_to_page_cache()
-
- mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin()
- Called at shmem's swapin.
-
- mem_cgroup_prepare_migration()
- Called before migration. "extra" charge is done and followed by
- charge-commit-cancel protocol.
- At commit, charge against oldpage or newpage will be committed.
-
-2. Uncharge
- a page/swp_entry may be uncharged (usage -= PAGE_SIZE) by
-
- mem_cgroup_uncharge_page()
- Called when an anonymous page is fully unmapped. I.e., mapcount goes
- to 0. If the page is SwapCache, uncharge is delayed until
- mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache().
-
- mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page()
- Called when a page-cache is deleted from radix-tree. If the page is
- SwapCache, uncharge is delayed until mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache().
-
- mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache()
- Called when SwapCache is removed from radix-tree. The charge itself
- is moved to swap_cgroup. (If mem+swap controller is disabled, no
- charge to swap occurs.)
-
- mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap()
- Called when swp_entry's refcnt goes down to 0. A charge against swap
- disappears.
-
- mem_cgroup_end_migration(old, new)
- At success of migration old is uncharged (if necessary), a charge
- to new page is committed. At failure, charge to old page is committed.
-
-3. charge-commit-cancel
- In some case, we can't know this "charge" is valid or not at charging
- (because of races).
- To handle such case, there are charge-commit-cancel functions.
- mem_cgroup_try_charge_XXX
- mem_cgroup_commit_charge_XXX
- mem_cgroup_cancel_charge_XXX
- these are used in swap-in and migration.
-
- At try_charge(), there are no flags to say "this page is charged".
- at this point, usage += PAGE_SIZE.
-
- At commit(), the function checks the page should be charged or not
- and set flags or avoid charging.(usage -= PAGE_SIZE)
-
- At cancel(), simply usage -= PAGE_SIZE.
-
-Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
-
-4. Anonymous
- Anonymous page is newly allocated at
- - page fault into MAP_ANONYMOUS mapping.
- - Copy-On-Write.
- It is charged right after it's allocated before doing any page table
- related operations. Of course, it's uncharged when another page is used
- for the fault address.
-
- At freeing anonymous page (by exit() or munmap()), zap_pte() is called
- and pages for ptes are freed one by one.(see mm/memory.c). Uncharges
- are done at page_remove_rmap() when page_mapcount() goes down to 0.
-
- Another page freeing is by page-reclaim (vmscan.c) and anonymous
- pages are swapped out. In this case, the page is marked as
- PageSwapCache(). uncharge() routine doesn't uncharge the page marked
- as SwapCache(). It's delayed until __delete_from_swap_cache().
-
- 4.1 Swap-in.
- At swap-in, the page is taken from swap-cache. There are 2 cases.
-
- (a) If the SwapCache is newly allocated and read, it has no charges.
- (b) If the SwapCache has been mapped by processes, it has been
- charged already.
-
- This swap-in is one of the most complicated work. In do_swap_page(),
- following events occur when pte is unchanged.
-
- (1) the page (SwapCache) is looked up.
- (2) lock_page()
- (3) try_charge_swapin()
- (4) reuse_swap_page() (may call delete_swap_cache())
- (5) commit_charge_swapin()
- (6) swap_free().
-
- Considering following situation for example.
-
- (A) The page has not been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page()
- doesn't call delete_from_swap_cache().
- (B) The page has not been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page()
- calls delete_from_swap_cache().
- (C) The page has been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page() doesn't
- call delete_from_swap_cache().
- (D) The page has been charged before (2) and reuse_swap_page() calls
- delete_from_swap_cache().
-
- memory.usage/memsw.usage changes to this page/swp_entry will be
- Case (A) (B) (C) (D)
- Event
- Before (2) 0/ 1 0/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1
- ===========================================
- (3) +1/+1 +1/+1 +1/+1 +1/+1
- (4) - 0/ 0 - -1/ 0
- (5) 0/-1 0/ 0 -1/-1 0/ 0
- (6) - 0/-1 - 0/-1
- ===========================================
- Result 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1 1/ 1
-
- In any cases, charges to this page should be 1/ 1.
-
- 4.2 Swap-out.
- At swap-out, typical state transition is below.
-
- (a) add to swap cache. (marked as SwapCache)
- swp_entry's refcnt += 1.
- (b) fully unmapped.
- swp_entry's refcnt += # of ptes.
- (c) write back to swap.
- (d) delete from swap cache. (remove from SwapCache)
- swp_entry's refcnt -= 1.
-
-
- At (b), the page is marked as SwapCache and not uncharged.
- At (d), the page is removed from SwapCache and a charge in page_cgroup
- is moved to swap_cgroup.
-
- Finally, at task exit,
- (e) zap_pte() is called and swp_entry's refcnt -=1 -> 0.
- Here, a charge in swap_cgroup disappears.
-
-5. Page Cache
- Page Cache is charged at
- - add_to_page_cache_locked().
-
- uncharged at
- - __remove_from_page_cache().
-
- The logic is very clear. (About migration, see below)
- Note: __remove_from_page_cache() is called by remove_from_page_cache()
- and __remove_mapping().
-
-6. Shmem(tmpfs) Page Cache
- Memcg's charge/uncharge have special handlers of shmem. The best way
- to understand shmem's page state transition is to read mm/shmem.c.
- But brief explanation of the behavior of memcg around shmem will be
- helpful to understand the logic.
-
- Shmem's page (just leaf page, not direct/indirect block) can be on
- - radix-tree of shmem's inode.
- - SwapCache.
- - Both on radix-tree and SwapCache. This happens at swap-in
- and swap-out,
-
- It's charged when...
- - A new page is added to shmem's radix-tree.
- - A swp page is read. (move a charge from swap_cgroup to page_cgroup)
- It's uncharged when
- - A page is removed from radix-tree and not SwapCache.
- - When SwapCache is removed, a charge is moved to swap_cgroup.
- - When swp_entry's refcnt goes down to 0, a charge in swap_cgroup
- disappears.
-
-7. Page Migration
- One of the most complicated functions is page-migration-handler.
- Memcg has 2 routines. Assume that we are migrating a page's contents
- from OLDPAGE to NEWPAGE.
-
- Usual migration logic is..
- (a) remove the page from LRU.
- (b) allocate NEWPAGE (migration target)
- (c) lock by lock_page().
- (d) unmap all mappings.
- (e-1) If necessary, replace entry in radix-tree.
- (e-2) move contents of a page.
- (f) map all mappings again.
- (g) pushback the page to LRU.
- (-) OLDPAGE will be freed.
-
- Before (g), memcg should complete all necessary charge/uncharge to
- NEWPAGE/OLDPAGE.
-
- The point is....
- - If OLDPAGE is anonymous, all charges will be dropped at (d) because
- try_to_unmap() drops all mapcount and the page will not be
- SwapCache.
-
- - If OLDPAGE is SwapCache, charges will be kept at (g) because
- __delete_from_swap_cache() isn't called at (e-1)
-
- - If OLDPAGE is page-cache, charges will be kept at (g) because
- remove_from_swap_cache() isn't called at (e-1)
-
- memcg provides following hooks.
-
- - mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(OLDPAGE)
- Called after (b) to account a charge (usage += PAGE_SIZE) against
- memcg which OLDPAGE belongs to.
-
- - mem_cgroup_end_migration(OLDPAGE, NEWPAGE)
- Called after (f) before (g).
- If OLDPAGE is used, commit OLDPAGE again. If OLDPAGE is already
- charged, a charge by prepare_migration() is automatically canceled.
- If NEWPAGE is used, commit NEWPAGE and uncharge OLDPAGE.
-
- But zap_pte() (by exit or munmap) can be called while migration,
- we have to check if OLDPAGE/NEWPAGE is a valid page after commit().
-
-8. LRU
- Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, it's handling is under global
- VM's control (means that it's handled under global zone->lru_lock).
- Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's
- list management functions under zone->lru_lock().
-
- A special function is mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(). This scans
- memcg's private LRU and call __isolate_lru_page() to extract a page
- from LRU.
- (By __isolate_lru_page(), the page is removed from both of global and
- private LRU.)
-
-
-9. Typical Tests.
-
- Tests for racy cases.
-
- 9.1 Small limit to memcg.
- When you do test to do racy case, it's good test to set memcg's limit
- to be very small rather than GB. Many races found in the test under
- xKB or xxMB limits.
- (Memory behavior under GB and Memory behavior under MB shows very
- different situation.)
-
- 9.2 Shmem
- Historically, memcg's shmem handling was poor and we saw some amount
- of troubles here. This is because shmem is page-cache but can be
- SwapCache. Test with shmem/tmpfs is always good test.
-
- 9.3 Migration
- For NUMA, migration is an another special case. To do easy test, cpuset
- is useful. Following is a sample script to do migration.
-
- mount -t cgroup -o cpuset none /opt/cpuset
-
- mkdir /opt/cpuset/01
- echo 1 > /opt/cpuset/01/cpuset.cpus
- echo 0 > /opt/cpuset/01/cpuset.mems
- echo 1 > /opt/cpuset/01/cpuset.memory_migrate
- mkdir /opt/cpuset/02
- echo 1 > /opt/cpuset/02/cpuset.cpus
- echo 1 > /opt/cpuset/02/cpuset.mems
- echo 1 > /opt/cpuset/02/cpuset.memory_migrate
-
- In above set, when you moves a task from 01 to 02, page migration to
- node 0 to node 1 will occur. Following is a script to migrate all
- under cpuset.
- --
- move_task()
- {
- for pid in $1
- do
- /bin/echo $pid >$2/tasks 2>/dev/null
- echo -n $pid
- echo -n " "
- done
- echo END
- }
-
- G1_TASK=`cat ${G1}/tasks`
- G2_TASK=`cat ${G2}/tasks`
- move_task "${G1_TASK}" ${G2} &
- --
- 9.4 Memory hotplug.
- memory hotplug test is one of good test.
- to offline memory, do following.
- # echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
- (XXX is the place of memory)
- This is an easy way to test page migration, too.
-
- 9.5 mkdir/rmdir
- When using hierarchy, mkdir/rmdir test should be done.
- Use tests like the following.
-
- echo 1 >/opt/cgroup/01/memory/use_hierarchy
- mkdir /opt/cgroup/01/child_a
- mkdir /opt/cgroup/01/child_b
-
- set limit to 01.
- add limit to 01/child_b
- run jobs under child_a and child_b
-
- create/delete following groups at random while jobs are running.
- /opt/cgroup/01/child_a/child_aa
- /opt/cgroup/01/child_b/child_bb
- /opt/cgroup/01/child_c
-
- running new jobs in new group is also good.
-
- 9.6 Mount with other subsystems.
- Mounting with other subsystems is a good test because there is a
- race and lock dependency with other cgroup subsystems.
-
- example)
- # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
-
- and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.