linux-kernel - [PATCH -mm 3/4] fork: charge threadinfo to memcg explicitly

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Message-ID: <8f98a5160b9e17947cbb25e91944f332679b9c9c.1395846845.git.vdavydov@parallels.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:28:06 +0400
From:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
To:	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...e.cz>, <glommer@...il.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: [PATCH -mm 3/4] fork: charge threadinfo to memcg explicitly

We have only a few places where we actually want to charge kmem so
instead of intruding into the general page allocation path with
__GFP_KMEMCG it's better to explictly charge kmem there. All kmem
charges will be easier to follow that way.

This is a step toward removing __GFP_KMEMCG. It makes fork charge task
threadinfo pages explicitly instead of passing __GFP_KMEMCG to
alloc_pages.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...allels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@...il.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index f4b09bc15f3a..8209780cf732 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -150,15 +150,22 @@ void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
 static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
 						  int node)
 {
-	struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, THREADINFO_GFP_ACCOUNTED,
-					     THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
+	struct page *page;
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
 
+	if (!memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(THREADINFO_GFP_ACCOUNTED, &memcg,
+				       THREAD_SIZE_ORDER))
+		return NULL;
+	page = alloc_pages_node(node, THREADINFO_GFP, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
+	memcg_kmem_commit_charge(page, memcg, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
 	return page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
 }
 
 static inline void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
 {
-	free_memcg_kmem_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
+	if (ti)
+		memcg_kmem_uncharge_pages(virt_to_page(ti), THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
+	free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
 }
 # else
 static struct kmem_cache *thread_info_cache;
-- 
1.7.10.4

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