memcg: mem+swap controller core

This patch implements per cgroup limit for usage of memory+swap.  However
there are SwapCache, double counting of swap-cache and swap-entry is
avoided.

Mem+Swap controller works as following.
  - memory usage is limited by memory.limit_in_bytes.
  - memory + swap usage is limited by memory.memsw_limit_in_bytes.

This has following benefits.
  - A user can limit total resource usage of mem+swap.

    Without this, because memory resource controller doesn't take care of
    usage of swap, a process can exhaust all the swap (by memory leak.)
    We can avoid this case.

    And Swap is shared resource but it cannot be reclaimed (goes back to memory)
    until it's used. This characteristic can be trouble when the memory
    is divided into some parts by cpuset or memcg.
    Assume group A and group B.
    After some application executes, the system can be..

    Group A -- very large free memory space but occupy 99% of swap.
    Group B -- under memory shortage but cannot use swap...it's nearly full.

    Ability to set appropriate swap limit for each group is required.

Maybe someone wonder "why not swap but mem+swap ?"

  - The global LRU(kswapd) can swap out arbitrary pages. Swap-out means
    to move account from memory to swap...there is no change in usage of
    mem+swap.

    In other words, when we want to limit the usage of swap without affecting
    global LRU, mem+swap limit is better than just limiting swap.

Accounting target information is stored in swap_cgroup which is
per swap entry record.

Charge is done as following.
  map
    - charge  page and memsw.

  unmap
    - uncharge page/memsw if not SwapCache.

  swap-out (__delete_from_swap_cache)
    - uncharge page
    - record mem_cgroup information to swap_cgroup.

  swap-in (do_swap_page)
    - charged as page and memsw.
      record in swap_cgroup is cleared.
      memsw accounting is decremented.

  swap-free (swap_free())
    - if swap entry is freed, memsw is uncharged by PAGE_SIZE.

There are people work under never-swap environments and consider swap as
something bad. For such people, this mem+swap controller extension is just an
overhead.  This overhead is avoided by config or boot option.
(see Kconfig. detail is not in this patch.)

TODO:
 - maybe more optimization can be don in swap-in path. (but not very safe.)
   But we just do simple accounting at this stage.

[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: make resize limit hold mutex]
[hugh@veritas.com: memswap controller core swapcache fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index f8f3907533f0..be938ce4895a 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static inline void lru_cache_add_active_file(struct page *page)
 extern unsigned long try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist, int order,
                                         gfp_t gfp_mask);
 extern unsigned long try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(struct mem_cgroup *mem,
-                                                        gfp_t gfp_mask);
+                                                gfp_t gfp_mask, bool noswap);
 extern int __isolate_lru_page(struct page *page, int mode, int file);
 extern unsigned long shrink_all_memory(unsigned long nr_pages);
 extern int vm_swappiness;
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static inline void disable_swap_token(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 extern int mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
                                 struct mm_struct *mm, gfp_t mask, bool locked);
-extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page);
+extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent);
 #else
 static inline
 int mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
@@ -344,7 +344,15 @@ int mem_cgroup_cache_charge_swapin(struct page *page,
 {
         return 0;
 }
-static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page)
+static inline void
+mem_cgroup_uncharge_swapcache(struct page *page, swp_entry_t ent)
+{
+}
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP
+extern void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent);
+#else
+static inline void mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap(swp_entry_t ent)
 {
 }
 #endif