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| author | Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> | 2014-06-04 16:06:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -0700 |
| commit | 52383431b37cdbec63944e953ffc2698a7ad9722 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c7002b9f8723899099a6a8fb2d0039641b9ca09 /mm/memcontrol.c | |
| parent | 5dfb417509921eb90ee123a4d1525e8916b4ace4 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-52383431b37cdbec63944e953ffc2698a7ad9722.tar.gz lwn-52383431b37cdbec63944e953ffc2698a7ad9722.zip | |
mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG
Currently to allocate a page that should be charged to kmemcg (e.g.
threadinfo), we pass __GFP_KMEMCG flag to the page allocator. The page
allocated is then to be freed by free_memcg_kmem_pages. Apart from
looking asymmetrical, this also requires intrusion to the general
allocation path. So let's introduce separate functions that will
alloc/free pages charged to kmemcg.
The new functions are called alloc_kmem_pages and free_kmem_pages. They
should be used when the caller actually would like to use kmalloc, but
has to fall back to the page allocator for the allocation is large.
They only differ from alloc_pages and free_pages in that besides
allocating or freeing pages they also charge them to the kmem resource
counter of the current memory cgroup.
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: export kmalloc_order() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memcontrol.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 56a768b3d5a8..7bab1de50f48 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3540,11 +3540,12 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order) /* * Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg * internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such - * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are marked - * with GFP_KMEMCG only happen outside memcg core. We are mostly - * concerned with cache allocations, and by having this test at - * memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able to relay the allocation to - * the root cache and bypass the memcg cache altogether. + * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are + * accounted to kmemcg (alloc_kmem_pages and friends) only happen + * outside memcg core. We are mostly concerned with cache allocations, + * and by having this test at memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able + * to relay the allocation to the root cache and bypass the memcg cache + * altogether. * * There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create * large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from |