linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][2/3] Account and control virtual address space allocations

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Message-ID: <47DE66BE.30904@openvz.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:40:30 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Sudhir Kumar <skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@...inux.co.jp>,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taka@...inux.co.jp,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][2/3] Account and control virtual address space allocations

Balbir Singh wrote:
> Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>>> +int mem_cgroup_update_as(struct mm_struct *mm, long nr_pages)
>>> +{
>>> +	int ret = 0;
>>> +	struct mem_cgroup *mem;
>>> +	if (mem_cgroup_subsys.disabled)
>>> +		return ret;
>>> +
>>> +	rcu_read_lock();
>>> +	mem = rcu_dereference(mm->mem_cgroup);
>>> +	css_get(&mem->css);
>>> +	rcu_read_unlock();
>>> +
>>> +	if (nr_pages > 0) {
>>> +		if (res_counter_charge(&mem->as_res, (nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE)))
>>> +			ret = 1;
>>> +	} else
>>> +		res_counter_uncharge(&mem->as_res, (-nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE));
>> No, please, no. Let's make two calls - mem_cgroup_charge_as and mem_cgroup_uncharge_as.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
> 
> Yes, sure :)

Thanks :)

>>> @@ -1117,6 +1117,9 @@ munmap_back:
>>>  		}
>>>  	}
>>>  
>>> +	if (mem_cgroup_update_as(mm, len >> PAGE_SHIFT))
>>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>> +
>> Why not use existintg cap_vm_enough_memory and co?
>>
> 
> I thought about it and almost used may_expand_vm(), but there is a slight catch
> there. With cap_vm_enough_memory() or security_vm_enough_memory(), they are
> called after total_vm has been calculated. In our case we need to keep the
> cgroups equivalent of total_vm up to date, and we do this in mem_cgorup_update_as.

So? What prevents us from using these hooks? :)
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