mm: memcontrol: fix recursive statistics correctness & scalabilty

Right now, when somebody needs to know the recursive memory statistics and events of a cgroup subtree, they need to walk the entire subtree and sum up the counters manually. There are two issues with this: 1. When a cgroup gets deleted, its stats are lost. The state counters should all be 0 at that point, of course, but the events are not. When this happens, the event counters, which are supposed to be monotonic, can go backwards in the parent cgroups. 2. During regular operation, we always have a certain number of lazily freed cgroups sitting around that have been deleted, have no tasks, but have a few cache pages remaining. These groups' statistics do not change until we eventually hit memory pressure, but somebody watching, say, memory.stat on an ancestor has to iterate those every time. This patch addresses both issues by introducing recursive counters at each level that are propagated from the write side when stats change. Upward propagation happens when the per-cpu caches spill over into the local atomic counter. This is the same thing we do during charge and uncharge, except that the latter uses atomic RMWs, which are more expensive; stat changes happen at around the same rate. In a sparse file test (page faults and reclaim at maximum CPU speed) with 5 cgroup nesting levels, perf shows __mod_memcg_page state at ~1%.

JWJohannes Weiner committed 7 years ago