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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 21 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst index 4f83de2dab6e..45b94f7b3beb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memcg_test.rst @@ -133,18 +133,9 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. 8. LRU ====== - Each memcg has its own private LRU. Now, its handling is under global - VM's control (means that it's handled under global pgdat->lru_lock). - Almost all routines around memcg's LRU is called by global LRU's - list management functions under pgdat->lru_lock. - - A special function is mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(). This scans - memcg's private LRU and call __isolate_lru_page() to extract a page - from LRU. - - (By __isolate_lru_page(), the page is removed from both of global and - private LRU.) - + Each memcg has its own vector of LRUs (inactive anon, active anon, + inactive file, active file, unevictable) of pages from each node, + each LRU handled under a single lru_lock for that memcg and node. 9. Typical Tests. ================= diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index a44cd467d218..52688ae34461 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -287,20 +287,17 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. 2.6 Locking ----------- - lock_page_cgroup()/unlock_page_cgroup() should not be called under - the i_pages lock. +Lock order is as follows: - Other lock order is following: + Page lock (PG_locked bit of page->flags) + mm->page_table_lock or split pte_lock + lock_page_memcg (memcg->move_lock) + mapping->i_pages lock + lruvec->lru_lock. - PG_locked. - mm->page_table_lock - pgdat->lru_lock - lock_page_cgroup. - - In many cases, just lock_page_cgroup() is called. - - per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by - pgdat->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own. +Per-node-per-memcgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is guarded by +lruvec->lru_lock; PG_lru bit of page->flags is cleared before +isolating a page from its LRU under lruvec->lru_lock. 2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) ----------------------------------------------- |