linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 08/11] secretmem: add memcg accounting

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:18:04 -0800
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 08/11] secretmem: add memcg accounting

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 8:20 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 02:27:20PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> >
> > Account memory consumed by secretmem to memcg. The accounting is updated
> > when the memory is actually allocated and freed.
>
> I think this is wrong.  It fails to account subsequent allocators from
> the same PMD.  If you want to track like this, you need separate pools
> per memcg.
>

Are these secretmem pools shared between different jobs/memcgs?