(2012/10/16 19:16), Glauber Costa wrote: > This patch introduces infrastructure for tracking kernel memory pages to > a given memcg. This will happen whenever the caller includes the flag > __GFP_KMEMCG flag, and the task belong to a memcg other than the root. > > In memcontrol.h those functions are wrapped in inline acessors. The > idea is to later on, patch those with static branches, so we don't incur > any overhead when no mem cgroups with limited kmem are being used. > > Users of this functionality shall interact with the memcg core code > through the following functions: > > memcg_kmem_newpage_charge: will return true if the group can handle the > allocation. At this point, struct page is not > yet allocated. > > memcg_kmem_commit_charge: will either revert the charge, if struct page > allocation failed, or embed memcg information > into page_cgroup. > > memcg_kmem_uncharge_page: called at free time, will revert the charge. > > [ v2: improved comments and standardized function names ] > [ v3: handle no longer opaque, functions not exported, > even more comments ] > [ v4: reworked Used bit handling and surroundings for more clarity ] > [ v5: simplified code for kmemcg compiled out and core functions in > memcontrol.c, moved kmem code to the middle to avoid forward decls ] > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > CC: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>