[Devel] [PATCH RHEL7 COMMIT] ms/gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT
Konstantin Khorenko
khorenko at odin.com
Thu May 7 02:11:25 PDT 2015
The commit is pushed to "branch-rh7-3.10.0-123.1.2-ovz" and will appear at https://src.openvz.org/scm/ovz/vzkernel.git
after rh7-3.10.0-123.1.2.vz7.4.10
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commit 9e40c9060eb049c22f3ee44efb58bd3f3dbfc1b2
Author: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
Date: Thu May 7 13:11:24 2015 +0400
ms/gfp: add __GFP_NOACCOUNT
Patch has been added to the mm tree:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg89831.html
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Not all kmem allocations should be accounted to memcg. The following
patch gives an example when accounting of a certain type of allocations
to memcg can effectively result in a memory leak. This patch adds the
__GFP_NOACCOUNT flag which if passed to kmalloc and friends will force
the allocation to go through the root cgroup. It will be used by the
next patch.
Note, since in case of kmemleak enabled each kmalloc implies yet another
allocation from the kmemleak_object cache, we add __GFP_NOACCOUNT to
gfp_kmemleak_mask.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov at parallels.com>
Changes in v2:
- do not account kmemleak objects to memcg for __GFP_NOACCOUNT allocations
include/linux/gfp.h | 2 ++
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++++
mm/kmemleak.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
include/linux/gfp.h | 2 ++
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 4 ++++
mm/kmemleak.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
index 4d66a5d..d14bb78 100644
--- a/include/linux/gfp.h
+++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define ___GFP_HARDWALL 0x20000u
#define ___GFP_THISNODE 0x40000u
#define ___GFP_RECLAIMABLE 0x80000u
+#define ___GFP_NOACCOUNT 0x100000u
#define ___GFP_NOTRACK 0x200000u
#define ___GFP_NO_KSWAPD 0x400000u
#define ___GFP_OTHER_NODE 0x800000u
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
#define __GFP_HARDWALL ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_HARDWALL) /* Enforce hardwall cpuset memory allocs */
#define __GFP_THISNODE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_THISNODE)/* No fallback, no policies */
#define __GFP_RECLAIMABLE ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_RECLAIMABLE) /* Page is reclaimable */
+#define __GFP_NOACCOUNT ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOACCOUNT) /* Don't account to memcg */
#define __GFP_NOTRACK ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NOTRACK) /* Don't track with kmemcheck */
#define __GFP_NO_KSWAPD ((__force gfp_t)___GFP_NO_KSWAPD)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 2e6c045..675b4c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -486,6 +486,8 @@ memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **memcg, int order)
if (!memcg_kmem_enabled())
return true;
+ if (gfp & __GFP_NOACCOUNT)
+ return true;
/*
* __GFP_NOFAIL allocations will move on even if charging is not
* possible. Therefore we don't even try, and have this allocation
@@ -549,6 +551,8 @@ memcg_kmem_get_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t gfp)
{
if (!memcg_kmem_enabled())
return cachep;
+ if (gfp & __GFP_NOACCOUNT)
+ return cachep;
if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL)
return cachep;
if (in_interrupt() || (!current->mm) || (current->flags & PF_KTHREAD))
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index c8d7f31..98e1b34 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@
#define BYTES_PER_POINTER sizeof(void *)
/* GFP bitmask for kmemleak internal allocations */
-#define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC)) | \
+#define gfp_kmemleak_mask(gfp) (((gfp) & (GFP_KERNEL | GFP_ATOMIC | \
+ __GFP_NOACCOUNT)) | \
__GFP_NORETRY | __GFP_NOMEMALLOC | \
__GFP_NOWARN)
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