linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg

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Date:   Thu, 5 Dec 2019 23:23:16 +0000
From:   Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>
To:     Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: account security cred as well to kmemcg

On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 02:37:21PM -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The cred_jar kmem_cache is already memcg accounted in the current
> kernel but cred->security is not. Account cred->security to kmemcg.
> 
> Recently we saw high root slab usage on our production and on further
> inspection, we found a buggy application leaking processes. Though that
> buggy application was contained within its memcg but we observe much
> more system memory overhead, couple of GiBs, during that period. This
> overhead can adversely impact the isolation on the system. One of source
> of high overhead, we found was cred->secuity objects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>

Thanks!