cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct
Remove the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds an owner.
This approach was suggested by Paul Menage. The advantage of this approach
is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem id, the cgroup
can be determined. It also allows several control groups that are
virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory
controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller, to
mm_struct.
A new config option CONFIG_MM_OWNER is added and the memory resource
controller selects this config option.
This patch also adds cgroup callbacks to notify subsystems when mm->owner
changes. The mm_cgroup_changed callback is called with the task_lock() of
the new task held and is called just prior to changing the mm->owner.
I am indebted to Paul Menage for the several reviews of this patchset and
helping me make it lighter and simpler.
This patch was tested on a powerpc box, it was compiled with both the
MM_OWNER config turned on and off.
After the thread group leader exits, it's moved to init_css_state by
cgroup_exit(), thus all future charges from runnings threads would be
redirected to the init_css_set's subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6067e42..156db96 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -381,14 +381,13 @@
mm->ioctx_list = NULL;
mm->free_area_cache = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
mm->cached_hole_size = ~0UL;
- mm_init_cgroup(mm, p);
+ mm_init_owner(mm, p);
if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) {
mm->def_flags = 0;
return mm;
}
- mm_free_cgroup(mm);
free_mm(mm);
return NULL;
}
@@ -438,7 +437,6 @@
spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
}
put_swap_token(mm);
- mm_free_cgroup(mm);
mmdrop(mm);
}
}
@@ -982,6 +980,13 @@
#endif
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER
+void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
+{
+ mm->owner = p;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MM_OWNER */
+
/*
* This creates a new process as a copy of the old one,
* but does not actually start it yet.
