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>

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index a345792..98fa96e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -378,9 +378,13 @@ config RESOURCE_COUNTERS
           infrastructure that works with cgroups
 	depends on CGROUPS
 
+config MM_OWNER
+	bool
+
 config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 	bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups"
 	depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
+	select MM_OWNER
 	help
 	  Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
 	  RSS memory.
@@ -393,6 +397,9 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 	  Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
 	  sure you need the memory resource controller.
 
+	  This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
+	  could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
+
 config SYSFS_DEPRECATED
 	bool
 
diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 1116d2f..c62c98f 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -559,6 +559,7 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void)
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE);
 	printk(linux_banner);
 	setup_arch(&command_line);
+	mm_init_owner(&init_mm, &init_task);
 	setup_command_line(command_line);
 	unwind_setup();
 	setup_per_cpu_areas();