memcg: simple migration handling
Now, management of "charge" under page migration is done under following
manner. (Assume migrate page contents from oldpage to newpage)
 before
  - "newpage" is charged before migration.
 at success.
  - "oldpage" is uncharged at somewhere(unmap, radix-tree-replace)
 at failure
  - "newpage" is uncharged.
  - "oldpage" is charged if necessary (*1)
But (*1) is not reliable....because of GFP_ATOMIC.
This patch tries to change behavior as following by charge/commit/cancel ops.
 before
  - charge PAGE_SIZE (no target page)
 success
  - commit charge against "newpage".
 failure
  - commit charge against "oldpage".
    (PCG_USED bit works effectively to avoid double-counting)
  - if "oldpage" is obsolete, cancel charge of PAGE_SIZE.
Signed-off-by:  KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by:  Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by:  Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by:  Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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