vmscan: per memory cgroup slab shrinkers

This patch adds SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE flag.  If a shrinker has this flag
set, it will be called per memory cgroup.  The memory cgroup to scan
objects from is passed in shrink_control->memcg.  If the memory cgroup
is NULL, a memcg aware shrinker is supposed to scan objects from the
global list.  Unaware shrinkers are only called on global pressure with
memcg=NULL.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/shrinker.h b/include/linux/shrinker.h
index f4aee75f00b1..4fcacd915d45 100644
--- a/include/linux/shrinker.h
+++ b/include/linux/shrinker.h
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ struct shrink_control {
 
         /* current node being shrunk (for NUMA aware shrinkers) */
         int nid;
+
+        /* current memcg being shrunk (for memcg aware shrinkers) */
+        struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
 };
 
 #define SHRINK_STOP (~0UL)
@@ -61,7 +64,8 @@ struct shrinker {
 #define DEFAULT_SEEKS 2 /* A good number if you don't know better. */
 
 /* Flags */
-#define SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE (1 << 0)
+#define SHRINKER_NUMA_AWARE     (1 << 0)
+#define SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE    (1 << 1)
 
 extern int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *);
 extern void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *);