Creation of each memory cgroup allocates few huge objects in mem_cgroup_css_alloc(). Its size exceeds the size of memory accounted in common part of cgroup creation: common part: ~11Kb + 318 bytes percpu memcg: ~17Kb + 4692 bytes percpu memory: ------ Allocs Alloc $1*$2 Sum Allocation number size -------------------------------------------- 1 + 8192 8192 8192 (mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x4a) <NB 14 ~ 352 4928 13120 KERNFS 1 + 2048 2048 15168 (mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0xdd) <NB 1 1024 1024 16192 (alloc_shrinker_info+0x79) 1 584 584 16776 (radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0x89) 2 64 128 16904 (percpu_ref_init+0x6a) 1 64 64 16968 (mem_cgroup_css_online+0x32) 1 = 3684 3684 3684 call_site=mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0x9e 1 = 984 984 4668 call_site=mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0xfd 2 12 24 4692 call_site=percpu_ref_init+0x23 '=' -- already accounted, '+' -- to be accounted, '~' -- partially accounted Accounting for this memory helps to avoid misuse inside memcg-limited contianers. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 85adc43c5a25..275d0c847f05 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5257,7 +5257,7 @@ static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int node) { struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn; - pn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL, node); + pn = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*pn), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, node); if (!pn) return 1; @@ -5309,7 +5309,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(void) int __maybe_unused i; long error = -ENOMEM; - memcg = kzalloc(struct_size(memcg, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids), GFP_KERNEL); + memcg = kzalloc(struct_size(memcg, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT); if (!memcg) return ERR_PTR(error); -- 2.36.1