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Roman Gushchin 1aacbd3543 mm: kmem: add direct objcg pointer to task_struct
To charge a freshly allocated kernel object to a memory cgroup, the kernel
needs to obtain an objcg pointer.  Currently it does it indirectly by
obtaining the memcg pointer first and then calling to
__get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg().

Usually tasks spend their entire life belonging to the same object cgroup.
So it makes sense to save the objcg pointer on task_struct directly, so
it can be obtained faster.  It requires some work on fork, exit and cgroup
migrate paths, but these paths are way colder.

To avoid any costly synchronization the following rules are applied:
1) A task sets it's objcg pointer itself.

2) If a task is being migrated to another cgroup, the least
   significant bit of the objcg pointer is set atomically.

3) On the allocation path the objcg pointer is obtained locklessly
   using the READ_ONCE() macro and the least significant bit is
   checked. If it's set, the following procedure is used to update
   it locklessly:
       - task->objcg is zeroed using cmpxcg
       - new objcg pointer is obtained
       - task->objcg is updated using try_cmpxchg
       - operation is repeated if try_cmpxcg fails
   It guarantees that no updates will be lost if task migration
   is racing against objcg pointer update. It also allows to keep
   both read and write paths fully lockless.

Because the task is keeping a reference to the objcg, it can't go away
while the task is alive.

This commit doesn't change the way the remote memcg charging works.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-3-roman.gushchin@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.