Re: [PATCH v3 07/13] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg

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On Tue 18-09-12 18:04:04, Glauber Costa wrote:
> When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, the
> page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to validate
> the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed.
> 
> To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would
> necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no reason,
> whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag is responsible
> for telling the page allocator that this is such an allocation at
> free_pages() time. This is done by the invocation of
> __free_accounted_pages() and free_accounted_pages().
> 
> [ v2: inverted test order to avoid a memcg_get leak,
>   free_accounted_pages simplification ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> ---
>  include/linux/gfp.h |  3 +++
>  mm/page_alloc.c     | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> index d8eae4d..029570f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> @@ -370,6 +370,9 @@ extern void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order);
>  extern void free_hot_cold_page(struct page *page, int cold);
>  extern void free_hot_cold_page_list(struct list_head *list, int cold);
>  
> +extern void __free_accounted_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
> +extern void free_accounted_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order);
> +
>  #define __free_page(page) __free_pages((page), 0)
>  #define free_page(addr) free_pages((addr), 0)
>  
> diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
> index b0c5a52..897d8e2 100644
> --- a/mm/page_alloc.c
> +++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
> @@ -2573,6 +2573,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  	struct page *page = NULL;
>  	int migratetype = allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask);
>  	unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie;
> +	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
>  
>  	gfp_mask &= gfp_allowed_mask;
>  
> @@ -2591,6 +2592,13 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
>  	if (unlikely(!zonelist->_zonerefs->zone))
>  		return NULL;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Will only have any effect when __GFP_KMEMCG is set.  This is
> +	 * verified in the (always inline) callee
> +	 */
> +	if (!memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_mask, &memcg, order))
> +		return NULL;
> +
>  retry_cpuset:
>  	cpuset_mems_cookie = get_mems_allowed();
>  
> @@ -2624,6 +2632,8 @@ out:
>  	if (unlikely(!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie) && !page))
>  		goto retry_cpuset;
>  
> +	memcg_kmem_commit_charge(page, memcg, order);
> +
>  	return page;
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask);
> @@ -2676,6 +2686,31 @@ void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
>  
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages);
>  
> +/*
> + * __free_accounted_pages and free_accounted_pages will free pages allocated
> + * with __GFP_KMEMCG.
> + *
> + * Those pages are accounted to a particular memcg, embedded in the
> + * corresponding page_cgroup. To avoid adding a hit in the allocator to search
> + * for that information only to find out that it is NULL for users who have no
> + * interest in that whatsoever, we provide these functions.
> + *
> + * The caller knows better which flags it relies on.
> + */
> +void __free_accounted_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
> +{
> +	memcg_kmem_uncharge_page(page, order);
> +	__free_pages(page, order);
> +}
> +
> +void free_accounted_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
> +{
> +	if (addr != 0) {
> +		VM_BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid((void *)addr));
> +		__free_accounted_pages(virt_to_page((void *)addr), order);
> +	}
> +}
> +
>  static void *make_alloc_exact(unsigned long addr, unsigned order, size_t size)
>  {
>  	if (addr) {
> -- 
> 1.7.11.4
> 
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SUSE Labs

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