On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 09:34:04PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote: > Black-list kmem accounting policy (aka __GFP_NOACCOUNT) turned out to be > fragile and difficult to maintain, because there seem to be many more > allocations that should not be accounted than those that should be. > Besides, false accounting an allocation might result in much worse > consequences than not accounting at all, namely increased memory > consumption due to pinned dead kmem caches. > > So this patch switches kmem accounting to the white-policy: now only > those kmem allocations that are marked as __GFP_ACCOUNT are accounted to > memcg. Currently, no kmem allocations are marked like this. The > following patches will mark several kmem allocations that are known to > be easily triggered from userspace and therefore should be accounted to > memcg. > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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>