mm: kmem: add direct objcg pointer to task_struct
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/20231019225346.1822282-3-roman.gushchin@linux.devSigned-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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