From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: convert page kmemcg type to a page memcg flag
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 09:48:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201001134854.GF469663@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001002710.748166-5-guro@fb.com>
On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:27:10PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> PageKmemcg flag is currently defined as a page type (like buddy,
> offline, table and guard). Semantically it means that the page
> was accounted as a kernel memory by the page allocator and has
> to be uncharged on the release.
>
> As a side effect of defining the flag as a page type, the accounted
> page can't be mapped to userspace (look at page_has_type() and
> comments above). In particular, this blocks the accounting of
> vmalloc-backed memory used by some bpf maps, because these maps
> do map the memory to userspace.
>
> One option is to fix it by complicating the access to page->mapcount,
> which provides some free bits for page->page_type.
>
> But it's way better to move this flag into page->memcg_data flags.
> Indeed, the flag makes no sense without enabled memory cgroups
> and memory cgroup pointer set in particular.
>
> This commit replaces PageKmemcg() and __SetPageKmemcg() with
> PageMemcgKmem() and an open-coded OR operation setting the memcg
> pointer with the MEMCG_DATA_KMEM bit. __ClearPageKmemcg() can be
> simple deleted, as the whole memcg_data is zeroed at once.
>
> As a bonus, on !CONFIG_MEMCG build the PageMemcgKmem() check will
> be compiled out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-01 13:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-01 0:27 [PATCH v4 0/4] mm: allow mapping accounted kernel pages to userspace Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 0:27 ` [PATCH v4 1/4] mm: memcontrol: use helpers to access page's memcg data Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 13:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-01 18:27 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 18:59 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-01 20:51 ` Roman Gushchin
2020-10-02 14:22 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-01 0:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: memcontrol/slab: use helpers to access slab page's memcg_data Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 0:27 ` [PATCH v4 3/4] mm: introduce page memcg flags Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 13:44 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-01 0:27 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] mm: convert page kmemcg type to a page memcg flag Roman Gushchin
2020-10-01 13:48 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2020-10-01 17:00 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-01 17:27 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-02 10:03 ` Michal Koutný
2020-10-02 13:25 ` Johannes Weiner
2020-10-01 18:30 ` Roman Gushchin
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