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mm/swap_cgroup: decouple swap cgroup recording and clearing
The current implementation of swap cgroup tracking is a bit complex and
fragile:
On charging path, swap_cgroup_record always records an actual memcg id,
and it depends on the caller to make sure all entries passed in must
belong to one single folio. As folios are always charged or uncharged as
a whole, and always charged and uncharged in order, swap_cgroup doesn't
need an extra lock.
On uncharging path, swap_cgroup_record always sets the record to zero.
These entries won't be charged again until uncharging is done. So there
is no extra lock needed either. Worth noting that swap cgroup clearing
may happen without folio involved, eg. exiting processes will zap its
page table without swapin.
The xchg/cmpxchg provides atomic operations and barriers to ensure no
tearing or synchronization issue of these swap cgroup records.
It works but quite error-prone. Things can be much clear and robust by
decoupling recording and clearing into two helpers. Recording takes the
actual folio being charged as argument, and clearing always set the record
to zero, and refine the debug sanity checks to better reflect their usage
Benchmark even showed a very slight improvement as it saved some
extra arguments and lookups:
make -j96 with defconfig on tmpfs in 1.5G memory cgroup using 4k folios:
Before: sys 9617.23 (stdev 37.764062)
After : sys 9541.54 (stdev 42.973976)
make -j96 with defconfig on tmpfs in 2G memory cgroup using 64k folios:
Before: sys 7358.98 (stdev 54.927593)
After : sys 7337.82 (stdev 39.398956)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Chris Li <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Song <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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