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To charge a freshly allocated kernel object to a memory cgroup, the kernel
needs to obtain an objcg pointer. Currently it does it indirectly by
obtaining the memcg pointer first and then calling to
__get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg().
Usually tasks spend their entire life belonging to the same object cgroup.
So it makes sense to save the objcg pointer on task_struct directly, so
it can be obtained faster. It requires some work on fork, exit and cgroup
migrate paths, but these paths are way colder.
To avoid any costly synchronization the following rules are applied:
1) A task sets it's objcg pointer itself.
2) If a task is being migrated to another cgroup, the least
significant bit of the objcg pointer is set atomically.
3) On the allocation path the objcg pointer is obtained locklessly
using the READ_ONCE() macro and the least significant bit is
checked. If it's set, the following procedure is used to update
it locklessly:
- task->objcg is zeroed using cmpxcg
- new objcg pointer is obtained
- task->objcg is updated using try_cmpxchg
- operation is repeated if try_cmpxcg fails
It guarantees that no updates will be lost if task migration
is racing against objcg pointer update. It also allows to keep
both read and write paths fully lockless.
Because the task is keeping a reference to the objcg, it can't go away
while the task is alive.
This commit doesn't change the way the remote memcg charging works.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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