[Devel] [PATCH v2 07/11] mm: Allocate kernel pages to the right memcg

[Glauber Costa]

When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, the
page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to validate
the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed.

To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would
necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no reason,
whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag is responsible
for telling the page allocator that this is such an allocation at
free_pages() time. This is done by the invocation of
__free_accounted_pages() and free_accounted_pages().

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl at linux.com>
CC: Pekka Enberg <penberg at cs.helsinki.fi>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes at cmpxchg.org>
CC: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman at google.com>
---
 include/linux/gfp.h |  3 +++
 mm/page_alloc.c     | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index d8eae4d..029570f 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -370,6 +370,9 @@ 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_accounted_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order);
+extern void free_accounted_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/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index b956cec..da341dc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -2532,6 +2532,7 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 	struct page *page = NULL;
 	int migratetype = allocflags_to_migratetype(gfp_mask);
 	unsigned int cpuset_mems_cookie;
+	void *handle = NULL;
 
 	gfp_mask &= gfp_allowed_mask;
 
@@ -2543,6 +2544,13 @@ __alloc_pages_nodemask(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order,
 		return NULL;
 
 	/*
+	 * Will only have any effect when __GFP_KMEMCG is set.
+	 * This is verified in the (always inline) callee
+	 */
+	if (!memcg_kmem_new_page(gfp_mask, &handle, order))
+		return NULL;
+
+	/*
 	 * Check the zones suitable for the gfp_mask contain at least one
 	 * valid zone. It's possible to have an empty zonelist as a result
 	 * of GFP_THISNODE and a memoryless node
@@ -2583,6 +2591,8 @@ out:
 	if (unlikely(!put_mems_allowed(cpuset_mems_cookie) && !page))
 		goto retry_cpuset;
 
+	memcg_kmem_commit_page(page, handle, order);
+
 	return page;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__alloc_pages_nodemask);
@@ -2635,6 +2645,34 @@ void free_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_pages);
 
+/*
+ * __free_accounted_pages and free_accounted_pages will free pages allocated
+ * with __GFP_KMEMCG.
+ *
+ * Those pages are accounted to a particular memcg, embedded in the
+ * corresponding page_cgroup. To avoid adding a hit in the allocator to search
+ * for that information only to find out that it is NULL for users who have no
+ * interest in that whatsoever, we provide these functions.
+ *
+ * The caller knows better which flags it relies on.
+ */
+void __free_accounted_pages(struct page *page, unsigned int order)
+{
+	memcg_kmem_free_page(page, order);
+	__free_pages(page, order);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__free_accounted_pages);
+
+void free_accounted_pages(unsigned long addr, unsigned int order)
+{
+	if (addr != 0) {
+		VM_BUG_ON(!virt_addr_valid((void *)addr));
+		memcg_kmem_free_page(virt_to_page((void *)addr), order);
+		__free_pages(virt_to_page((void *)addr), order);
+	}
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_accounted_pages);
+
 static void *make_alloc_exact(unsigned long addr, unsigned order, size_t size)
 {
 	if (addr) {
-- 
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