On Tue, Apr 01 2014, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently to allocate a page that should be charged to kmemcg (e.g. > threadinfo), we pass __GFP_KMEMCG flag to the page allocator. The page > allocated is then to be freed by free_memcg_kmem_pages. Apart from > looking asymmetrical, this also requires intrusion to the general > allocation path. So let's introduce separate functions that will > alloc/free pages charged to kmemcg. > > The new functions are called alloc_kmem_pages and free_kmem_pages. They > should be used when the caller actually would like to use kmalloc, but > has to fall back to the page allocator for the allocation is large. They > only differ from alloc_pages and free_pages in that besides allocating > or freeing pages they also charge them to the kmem resource counter of > the current memory cgroup. > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> One comment nit below, otherwise looks good to me. Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Changes in v2.1: > - add missing kmalloc_order forward declaration; lacking it caused > compilation breakage with CONFIG_TRACING=n > > include/linux/gfp.h | 10 ++++--- > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 2 +- > include/linux/slab.h | 11 +------- > include/linux/thread_info.h | 2 -- > include/trace/events/gfpflags.h | 1 - > kernel/fork.c | 6 ++--- > mm/page_alloc.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- > mm/slab_common.c | 12 +++++++++ > mm/slub.c | 6 ++--- > 9 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h > index 39b81dc7d01a..d382db71e300 100644 > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h > @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; > #define ___GFP_HARDWALL 0x20000u > #define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u > #define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE 0x80000u > -#define ___GFP_KMEMCG 0x100000u > #define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u > #define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u > #define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u > @@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ struct vm_area_struct; > > #define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD) > #define __GFP_OTHER_NODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_OTHER_NODE) /* On behalf of other node */ > -#define __GFP_KMEMCG ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_KMEMCG) /* Allocation comes from a memcg-accounted resource */ > #define __GFP_WRITE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_WRITE) /* Allocator intends to dirty page */ > > /* > @@ -353,6 +351,10 @@ extern struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, > #define alloc_page_vma_node(gfp_mask, vma, addr, node) \ > alloc_pages_vma(gfp_mask, 0, vma, addr, node) > > +extern struct page *alloc_kmem_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order); > +extern struct page *alloc_kmem_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask, > + unsigned int order); > + > extern unsigned long __get_free_pages(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order); > extern unsigned long get_zeroed_page(gfp_t gfp_mask); > > @@ -372,8 +374,8 @@ 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_memcg_kmem_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); > -extern void free_memcg_kmem_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order); > +extern void __free_kmem_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order); > +extern void free_kmem_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/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > index 29068dd26c3d..13acdb5259f5 100644 > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h > @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **memcg, int order) > * res_counter_charge_nofail, but we hope those allocations are rare, > * and won't be worth the trouble. > */ Just a few lines higher in first memcg_kmem_newpage_charge() comment, there is a leftover reference to GFP_KMEMCG which should be removed. -- 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>