mm: add swappiness= arg to memory.reclaim

Allow proactive reclaimers to submit an additional swappiness=<val>
argument to memory.reclaim.  This overrides the global or per-memcg
swappiness setting for that reclaim attempt.

For example:

echo "2M swappiness=0" > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory.reclaim

will perform reclaim on the rootcg with a swappiness setting of 0 (no
swap) regardless of the vm.swappiness sysctl setting.

Userspace proactive reclaimers use the memory.reclaim interface to trigger
reclaim.  The memory.reclaim interface does not allow for any way to
effect the balance of file vs anon during proactive reclaim.  The only
approach is to adjust the vm.swappiness setting.  However, there are a few
reasons we look to control the balance of file vs anon during proactive
reclaim, separately from reactive reclaim:

* Swapout should be limited to manage SSD write endurance.  In near-OOM
  situations we are fine with lots of swap-out to avoid OOMs.  As these
  are typically rare events, they have relatively little impact on write
  endurance.  However, proactive reclaim runs continuously and so its
  impact on SSD write endurance is more significant.  Therefore it is
  desireable to control swap-out for proactive reclaim separately from
  reactive reclaim

* Some userspace OOM killers like systemd-oomd[1] support OOM killing on
  swap exhaustion.  This makes sense if the swap exhaustion is triggered
  due to reactive reclaim but less so if it is triggered due to proactive
  reclaim (e.g.  one could see OOMs when free memory is ample but anon is
  just particularly cold).  Therefore, it's desireable to have proactive
  reclaim reduce or stop swap-out before the threshold at which OOM
  killing occurs.

In the case of Meta's Senpai proactive reclaimer, we adjust vm.swappiness
before writes to memory.reclaim[2].  This has been in production for
nearly two years and has addressed our needs to control proactive vs
reactive reclaim behavior but is still not ideal for a number of reasons:

* vm.swappiness is a global setting, adjusting it can race/interfere
  with other system administration that wishes to control vm.swappiness. 
  In our case, we need to disable Senpai before adjusting vm.swappiness.

* vm.swappiness is stateful - so a crash or restart of Senpai can leave
  a misconfigured setting.  This requires some additional management to
  record the "desired" setting and ensure Senpai always adjusts to it.

With this patch, we avoid these downsides of adjusting vm.swappiness
globally.

[1]https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-oomd.service.html
[2]https://github.com/facebookincubator/oomd/blob/main/src/oomd/plugins/Senpai.cpp#L585-L598

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240103164841.2800183-3-schatzberg.dan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Yue Zhao <findns94@gmail.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 8fbb0519d556..3ef815845003 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1299,17 +1299,10 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 	This is a simple interface to trigger memory reclaim in the
 	target cgroup.
 
-	This file accepts a single key, the number of bytes to reclaim.
-	No nested keys are currently supported.
-
 	Example::
 
 	  echo "1G" > memory.reclaim
 
-	The interface can be later extended with nested keys to
-	configure the reclaim behavior. For example, specify the
-	type of memory to reclaim from (anon, file, ..).
-
 	Please note that the kernel can over or under reclaim from
 	the target cgroup. If less bytes are reclaimed than the
 	specified amount, -EAGAIN is returned.
@@ -1321,6 +1314,17 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
 	This means that the networking layer will not adapt based on
 	reclaim induced by memory.reclaim.
 
+The following nested keys are defined.
+
+	  ==========            ================================
+	  swappiness            Swappiness value to reclaim with
+	  ==========            ================================
+
+	Specifying a swappiness value instructs the kernel to perform
+	the reclaim with that swappiness value. Note that this has the
+	same semantics as vm.swappiness applied to memcg reclaim with
+	all the existing limitations and potential future extensions.
+
   memory.peak
 	A read-only single value file which exists on non-root
 	cgroups.