Hi Oliver, thanks for the review, please my comments below:
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> From: Oliver Upton <oupton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 6:29 AM
> To: Justin He <Justin.He@xxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: Add memcg accounting to KVM
> allocations
>
> Hi Jia,
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 7:33 AM Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Inspired by commit 254272ce6505 ("kvm: x86: Add memcg accounting to KVM
> > allocations"), it would be better to make arm64 KVM consistent with
> > common kvm codes.
> >
> > The memory allocations of VM scope should be charged into VM process
> > cgroup, hence change GFP_KERNEL to GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.
> >
> > There remain a few cases since these allocations are global, not in VM
> > scope.
>
> I believe there are more memory allocations that could be switched to
> GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT. For non-pKVM kernels, we probably should charge
> all stage-2 paging structure allocations to the VM process. Your patch
> appears to only change the allocation of the kvm_pgtable structure,
> but not descendent paging structures.
>
Do you mean kvm_hyp_zalloc_page() here?
Seems kvm_hyp_zalloc_page() is in both global and VM scopes.
I will replace GFP_KERNEL with XXX_ACCOUNT in next version if no one
objects that.
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Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)
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