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>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 6067e42..156db96 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -381,14 +381,13 @@ static struct mm_struct * mm_init(struct mm_struct * mm, struct task_struct *p)
 	mm->ioctx_list = NULL;
 	mm->free_area_cache = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
 	mm->cached_hole_size = ~0UL;
-	mm_init_cgroup(mm, p);
+	mm_init_owner(mm, p);
 
 	if (likely(!mm_alloc_pgd(mm))) {
 		mm->def_flags = 0;
 		return mm;
 	}
 
-	mm_free_cgroup(mm);
 	free_mm(mm);
 	return NULL;
 }
@@ -438,7 +437,6 @@ void mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
 			spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
 		}
 		put_swap_token(mm);
-		mm_free_cgroup(mm);
 		mmdrop(mm);
 	}
 }
@@ -982,6 +980,13 @@ static void rt_mutex_init_task(struct task_struct *p)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER
+void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)
+{
+	mm->owner = p;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MM_OWNER */
+
 /*
  * This creates a new process as a copy of the old one,
  * but does not actually start it yet.