memcg: fix direct softlimit reclaim to be called in limit path

Commit d149e3b25d7c ("memcg: add the soft_limit reclaim in global direct
reclaim") adds a softlimit hook to shrink_zones().  By this, soft limit
is called as

   try_to_free_pages()
       do_try_to_free_pages()
           shrink_zones()
               mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim()

Then, direct reclaim is memcg softlimit hint aware, now.

But, the memory cgroup's "limit" path can call softlimit shrinker.

   try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages()
       do_try_to_free_pages()
           shrink_zones()
               mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim()

This will cause a global reclaim when a memcg hits limit.

This is bug. soft_limit_reclaim() should be called when
scanning_global_lru(sc) == true.

And the commit adds a variable "total_scanned" for counting softlimit
scanned pages....it's not "total".  This patch removes the variable and
update sc->nr_scanned instead of it.  This will affect shrink_slab()'s
scan condition but, global LRU is scanned by softlimit and I think this
change makes sense.

TODO: avoid too much scanning of a zone when softlimit did enough work.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 8ff834e19c2..4f49535d4cd 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -1995,14 +1995,13 @@ restart:
  * If a zone is deemed to be full of pinned pages then just give it a light
  * scan then give up on it.
  */
-static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
+static void shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
 					struct scan_control *sc)
 {
 	struct zoneref *z;
 	struct zone *zone;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_reclaimed;
 	unsigned long nr_soft_scanned;
-	unsigned long total_scanned = 0;
 
 	for_each_zone_zonelist_nodemask(zone, z, zonelist,
 					gfp_zone(sc->gfp_mask), sc->nodemask) {
@@ -2017,19 +2016,23 @@ static unsigned long shrink_zones(int priority, struct zonelist *zonelist,
 				continue;
 			if (zone->all_unreclaimable && priority != DEF_PRIORITY)
 				continue;	/* Let kswapd poll it */
+			/*
+			 * This steals pages from memory cgroups over softlimit
+			 * and returns the number of reclaimed pages and
+			 * scanned pages. This works for global memory pressure
+			 * and balancing, not for a memcg's limit.
+			 */
+			nr_soft_scanned = 0;
+			nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
+						sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
+						&nr_soft_scanned);
+			sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
+			sc->nr_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
+			/* need some check for avoid more shrink_zone() */
 		}
 
-		nr_soft_scanned = 0;
-		nr_soft_reclaimed = mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim(zone,
-							sc->order, sc->gfp_mask,
-							&nr_soft_scanned);
-		sc->nr_reclaimed += nr_soft_reclaimed;
-		total_scanned += nr_soft_scanned;
-
 		shrink_zone(priority, zone, sc);
 	}
-
-	return total_scanned;
 }
 
 static bool zone_reclaimable(struct zone *zone)
@@ -2094,7 +2097,7 @@ static unsigned long do_try_to_free_pages(struct zonelist *zonelist,
 		sc->nr_scanned = 0;
 		if (!priority)
 			disable_swap_token(sc->mem_cgroup);
-		total_scanned += shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
+		shrink_zones(priority, zonelist, sc);
 		/*
 		 * Don't shrink slabs when reclaiming memory from
 		 * over limit cgroups