linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/11] protect architectures where THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:57:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
cc:	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, devel@...nvz.org,
	kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] protect architectures where THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE
 against fork bombs

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Glauber Costa wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> index ccc1899..914ec07 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ extern long do_no_restart_syscall(struct restart_block *parm);
>  # define THREADINFO_GFP		(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK)
>  #endif
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
> +# define THREADINFO_GFP_ACCOUNTED (THREADINFO_GFP | __GFP_KMEMCG)
> +#else
> +# define THREADINFO_GFP_ACCOUNTED (THREADINFO_GFP)
> +#endif
> +

This type of requirement is going to become nasty very quickly if nobody 
can use __GFP_KMEMCG without testing for CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM.  
Perhaps define __GFP_KMEMCG to be 0x0 if it's not enabled, similar to how 
kmemcheck does?
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