mm: memcg: allow lowering memory.swap.max below the current usage

Currently an attempt to set swap.max into a value lower than the actual
swap usage fails, which causes configuration problems as there's no way
of lowering the configuration below the current usage short of turning
off swap entirely.  This makes swap.max difficult to use and allows
delegatees to lock the delegator out of reducing swap allocation.

This patch updates swap_max_write() so that the limit can be lowered
below the current usage.  It doesn't implement active reclaiming of swap
entries for the following reasons.

* mem_cgroup_swap_full() already tells the swap machinary to
  aggressively reclaim swap entries if the usage is above 50% of
  limit, so simply lowering the limit automatically triggers gradual
  reclaim.

* Forcing back swapped out pages is likely to heavily impact the
  workload and mess up the working set.  Given that swap usually is a
  lot less valuable and less scarce, letting the existing usage
  dissipate over time through the above gradual reclaim and as they're
  falted back in is likely the better behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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