Re: [PATCH] kvm, mm: account shadow page tables to kmemcg

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On 27/06/2018 20:13, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The size of kvm's shadow page tables corresponds to the size of the
> guest virtual machines on the system. Large VMs can spend a significant
> amount of memory as shadow page tables which can not be left as system
> memory overhead. So, account shadow page tables to the kmemcg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index d594690d8b95..c79a398300f5 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache *cache,
>  	if (cache->nobjs >= min)
>  		return 0;
>  	while (cache->nobjs < ARRAY_SIZE(cache->objects)) {
> -		page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> +		page = (void *)__get_free_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ACCOUNT);
>  		if (!page)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
>  		cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page;
> 

Queued, with

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,

Paolo



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