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authorDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>2010-03-10 18:22:17 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 18:52:36 -0500
commit024914477e15ef8b17f271ec47f1bb8a589f0806 (patch)
tree9a6a8b4224c94fcdd1b8c3127b301ee3537f8cc2 /Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
parent8033b97c9b5ef063e3f4bf2efe1cd0a22093aaff (diff)
memcg: move charges of anonymous swap
This patch is another core part of this move-charge-at-task-migration feature. It enables moving charges of anonymous swaps. To move the charge of swap, we need to exchange swap_cgroup's record. In current implementation, swap_cgroup's record is protected by: - page lock: if the entry is on swap cache. - swap_lock: if the entry is not on swap cache. This works well in usual swap-in/out activity. But this behavior make the feature of moving swap charge check many conditions to exchange swap_cgroup's record safely. So I changed modification of swap_cgroup's recored(swap_cgroup_record()) to use xchg, and define a new function to cmpxchg swap_cgroup's record. This patch also enables moving charge of non pte_present but not uncharged swap caches, which can be exist on swap-out path, by getting the target pages via find_get_page() as do_mincore() does. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ia64 build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typos] Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -420,6 +420,8 @@ NOTE2: It is recommended to set the soft limit always below the hard limit,
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421Users can move charges associated with a task along with task migration, that 421Users can move charges associated with a task along with task migration, that
422is, uncharge task's pages from the old cgroup and charge them to the new cgroup. 422is, uncharge task's pages from the old cgroup and charge them to the new cgroup.
423This feature is not supported in !CONFIG_MMU environments because of lack of
424page tables.
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4248.1 Interface 4268.1 Interface
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