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-rw-r--r--include/linux/memcontrol.h10
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c43
-rw-r--r--mm/page-writeback.c15
3 files changed, 51 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 3914e3dd6168..9b15a4bcfa77 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -484,7 +484,8 @@ bool mem_cgroup_oom_synchronize(bool wait);
extern int do_swap_account;
#endif
-void lock_page_memcg(struct page *page);
+struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page);
+void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
void unlock_page_memcg(struct page *page);
static inline unsigned long memcg_page_state(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
@@ -809,7 +810,12 @@ mem_cgroup_print_oom_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct task_struct *p)
{
}
-static inline void lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+static inline struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+{
+ return NULL;
+}
+
+static inline void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
}
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 3df3c04d73ab..e09741af816f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1611,9 +1611,13 @@ cleanup:
* @page: the page
*
* This function protects unlocked LRU pages from being moved to
- * another cgroup and stabilizes their page->mem_cgroup binding.
+ * another cgroup.
+ *
+ * It ensures lifetime of the returned memcg. Caller is responsible
+ * for the lifetime of the page; __unlock_page_memcg() is available
+ * when @page might get freed inside the locked section.
*/
-void lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+struct mem_cgroup *lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -1622,18 +1626,24 @@ void lock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
* The RCU lock is held throughout the transaction. The fast
* path can get away without acquiring the memcg->move_lock
* because page moving starts with an RCU grace period.
- */
+ *
+ * The RCU lock also protects the memcg from being freed when
+ * the page state that is going to change is the only thing
+ * preventing the page itself from being freed. E.g. writeback
+ * doesn't hold a page reference and relies on PG_writeback to
+ * keep off truncation, migration and so forth.
+ */
rcu_read_lock();
if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
- return;
+ return NULL;
again:
memcg = page->mem_cgroup;
if (unlikely(!memcg))
- return;
+ return NULL;
if (atomic_read(&memcg->moving_account) <= 0)
- return;
+ return memcg;
spin_lock_irqsave(&memcg->move_lock, flags);
if (memcg != page->mem_cgroup) {
@@ -1649,18 +1659,18 @@ again:
memcg->move_lock_task = current;
memcg->move_lock_flags = flags;
- return;
+ return memcg;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_page_memcg);
/**
- * unlock_page_memcg - unlock a page->mem_cgroup binding
- * @page: the page
+ * __unlock_page_memcg - unlock and unpin a memcg
+ * @memcg: the memcg
+ *
+ * Unlock and unpin a memcg returned by lock_page_memcg().
*/
-void unlock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+void __unlock_page_memcg(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
{
- struct mem_cgroup *memcg = page->mem_cgroup;
-
if (memcg && memcg->move_lock_task == current) {
unsigned long flags = memcg->move_lock_flags;
@@ -1672,6 +1682,15 @@ void unlock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
rcu_read_unlock();
}
+
+/**
+ * unlock_page_memcg - unlock a page->mem_cgroup binding
+ * @page: the page
+ */
+void unlock_page_memcg(struct page *page)
+{
+ __unlock_page_memcg(page->mem_cgroup);
+}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_page_memcg);
/*
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c
index 96e93b214d31..bf050ab025b7 100644
--- a/mm/page-writeback.c
+++ b/mm/page-writeback.c
@@ -2724,9 +2724,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(clear_page_dirty_for_io);
int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
{
struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+ struct lruvec *lruvec;
int ret;
- lock_page_memcg(page);
+ memcg = lock_page_memcg(page);
+ lruvec = mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(page, page_pgdat(page));
if (mapping && mapping_use_writeback_tags(mapping)) {
struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
struct backing_dev_info *bdi = inode_to_bdi(inode);
@@ -2754,12 +2757,18 @@ int test_clear_page_writeback(struct page *page)
} else {
ret = TestClearPageWriteback(page);
}
+ /*
+ * NOTE: Page might be free now! Writeback doesn't hold a page
+ * reference on its own, it relies on truncation to wait for
+ * the clearing of PG_writeback. The below can only access
+ * page state that is static across allocation cycles.
+ */
if (ret) {
- dec_lruvec_page_state(page, NR_WRITEBACK);
+ dec_lruvec_state(lruvec, NR_WRITEBACK);
dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_ZONE_WRITE_PENDING);
inc_node_page_state(page, NR_WRITTEN);
}
- unlock_page_memcg(page);
+ __unlock_page_memcg(memcg);
return ret;
}