The size of kvm's shadow page tables corresponds to the size of the guest virtual machines on the system. Large VMs can spend a significant amount of memory as shadow page tables which can not be left as system memory overhead. So, account shadow page tables to the kmemcg. Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index d594690d8b95..c79a398300f5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache, if (cache->nobjs >= min) return 0; while (cache->nobjs < ARRAY_SIZE(cache->objects)) { - page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL); + page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ACCOUNT); if (!page) return -ENOMEM; cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page; -- 2.18.0.rc2.346.g013aa6912e-goog