The patch titled Subject: memcg: page_alloc: skip bulk allocator for __GFP_ACCOUNT has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-page_alloc-skip-bulk-allocator-for-__gfp_account.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-page_alloc-skip-bulk-allocator-for-__gfp_account.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-page_alloc-skip-bulk-allocator-for-__gfp_account.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: page_alloc: skip bulk allocator for __GFP_ACCOUNT commit 5c1f4e690eec ("mm/vmalloc: switch to bulk allocator in __vmalloc_area_node()") switched to bulk page allocator for order 0 allocation backing vmalloc. However bulk page allocator does not support __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations and there are several users of kvmalloc(__GFP_ACCOUNT). For now make __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations bypass bulk page allocator. In future if there is workload that can be significantly improved with the bulk page allocator with __GFP_ACCCOUNT support, we can revisit the decision. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211014151607.2171970-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 5c1f4e690eec ("mm/vmalloc: switch to bulk allocator in __vmalloc_area_node()") Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~memcg-page_alloc-skip-bulk-allocator-for-__gfp_account +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -5223,6 +5223,10 @@ unsigned long __alloc_pages_bulk(gfp_t g if (unlikely(page_array && nr_pages - nr_populated == 0)) goto out; + /* Bulk allocator does not support memcg accounting. */ + if (memcg_kmem_enabled() && (gfp & __GFP_ACCOUNT)) + goto failed; + /* Use the single page allocator for one page. */ if (nr_pages - nr_populated == 1) goto failed; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx are memcg-flush-stats-only-if-updated.patch memcg-unify-memcg-stat-flushing.patch memcg-page_alloc-skip-bulk-allocator-for-__gfp_account.patch