On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:11 AM <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > kvm, mm: account shadow page tables to kmemcg > > to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > The filename of the patch is: > kvm-mm-account-shadow-page-tables-to-kmemcg.patch > and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > Hi Greg, this patch requires some more changes to be effective on 4.4 kernel as kmem charging is still not in the generic page allocator code path in 4.4. Shakeel > > From d97e5e6160c0e0a23963ec198c7cb1c69e6bf9e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:37:45 -0700 > Subject: kvm, mm: account shadow page tables to kmemcg > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > From: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > commit d97e5e6160c0e0a23963ec198c7cb1c69e6bf9e8 upstream. > > 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. > > [shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx: replace (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ACCOUNT) with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT] > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180629140224.205849-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627181349.149778-1-shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c > @@ -692,7 +692,7 @@ static int mmu_topup_memory_cache_page(s > 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_ACCOUNT); > if (!page) > return -ENOMEM; > cache->objects[cache->nobjs++] = page; > > > Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx are > > queue-4.4/kvm-mm-account-shadow-page-tables-to-kmemcg.patch
