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

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Date:   Thu, 28 Jun 2018 09:10:07 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@...gle.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm, mm: account shadow page tables to kmemcg

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@...gle.com>
> ---
>  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@...r.kernel.org

Thanks,

Paolo