Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm/memcontrol: allow to uncharge page without using page->lru field

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On Mon 10-07-17 12:54:21, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 06:36:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Mon 10-07-17 12:25:42, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Bottom line is that we can always free and uncharge device memory
> > > page just like any regular page.
> > 
> > OK, this answers my earlier question. Then it should be feasible to
> > charge this memory. There are still some things to handle. E.g. how do
> > we consider this memory during oom victim selection (this is not
> > accounted as an anonymous memory in get_mm_counter, right?), maybe others.
> > But the primary point is that nobody pins the memory outside of the
> > mapping.
> 
> At this point it is accounted as a regular page would be (anonymous, file
> or share memory). I wanted mm_counters to reflect memcg but i can untie
> that.

I am not sure I understand. If the device memory is accounted to the
same mm counter as the original page then it is correct. I will try to
double check the implementation (hopefully soon).

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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