mm: skip folio reclaim in legacy memcg contexts for deadlockable mappings
Currently in shrink_folio_list(), reclaim for folios under writeback
falls into 3 different cases:
1) Reclaim is encountering an excessive number of folios under
writeback and this folio has both the writeback and reclaim flags
set
2) Dirty throttling is enabled (this happens if reclaim through cgroup
is not enabled, if reclaim through cgroupv2 memcg is enabled, or
if reclaim is on the root cgroup), or if the folio is not marked for
immediate reclaim, or if the caller does not have __GFP_FS (or
__GFP_IO if it's going to swap) set
3) Legacy cgroupv1 encounters a folio that already has the reclaim flag
set and the caller did not have __GFP_FS (or __GFP_IO if swap) set
In cases 1) and 2), we activate the folio and skip reclaiming it while
in case 3), we wait for writeback to finish on the folio and then try
to reclaim the folio again. In case 3, we wait on writeback because
cgroupv1 does not have dirty folio throttling, as such this is a
mitigation against the case where there are too many folios in writeback
with nothing else to reclaim.
If a filesystem (eg fuse) may deadlock due to reclaim waiting on
writeback, then the filesystem needs to add inefficient messy workarounds
to prevent this. To improve the performance of these filesystems, this
commit adds two things:
a) a AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_DEADLOCK_ON_RECLAIM mapping flag that filesystems
may set to indicate that reclaim should not wait on writeback
b) if legacy memcg encounters a folio with this
AS_WRITEBACK_MAY_DEADLOCK_ON_RECLAIM flag set (eg case 3), the folio
will be activated and skip reclaim (eg default to behavior in case 2)
instead.
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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