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Commit 0add0c77 authored by Shakeel Butt's avatar Shakeel Butt Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: charge before adding to swapcache on swapin

Currently the kernel adds the page, allocated for swapin, to the
swapcache before charging the page.  This is fine but now we want a
per-memcg swapcache stat which is essential for folks who wants to
transparently migrate from cgroup v1's memsw to cgroup v2's memory and
swap counters.  In addition charging a page before exposing it to other
parts of the kernel is a step in the right direction.

To correctly maintain the per-memcg swapcache stat, this patch has
adopted to charge the page before adding it to swapcache.  One challenge
in this option is the failure case of add_to_swap_cache() on which we
need to undo the mem_cgroup_charge().  Specifically undoing
mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap() is not simple.

To resolve the issue, this patch decouples the charging for swapin pages
from mem_cgroup_charge().  Two new functions are introduced,
mem_cgroup_swapin_charge_page() for just charging the swapin page and
mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() for uncharging the swap slot once the
page has been successfully added to the swapcache.

[shakeelb@google.com: set page->private before calling swap_readpage]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210318015959.2986837-1-shakeelb@google.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210305212639.775498-1-shakeelb@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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