linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] mm: stop setting page->mem

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:15:48 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 09/10] mm: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for
 slab pages

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 4:18 PM Roman Gushchin <guro@...com> wrote:
>
> Every slab page charged to a non-root memory cgroup has a pointer
> to the memory cgroup and holds a reference to it, which protects
> a non-empty memory cgroup from being released. At the same time
> the page has a pointer to the corresponding kmem_cache, and also
> hold a reference to the kmem_cache. And kmem_cache by itself
> holds a reference to the cgroup.
>
> So there is clearly some redundancy, which allows to stop setting
> the page->mem_cgroup pointer and rely on getting memcg pointer
> indirectly via kmem_cache. Further it will allow to change this
> pointer easier, without a need to go over all charged pages.
>
> So let's stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages,
> and stop using the css refcounter directly for protecting
> the memory cgroup from going away. Instead rely on kmem_cache
> as an intermediate object.
>
> Make sure that vmstats and shrinker lists are working as previously,
> as well as /proc/kpagecgroup interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>