linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add memcg accounting to Arm KVM

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Date:   Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:30:12 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Jia He <justin.he@....com>
Cc:     Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Eric Auger <eric.auger@...hat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@...wei.com>,
        Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Add memcg accounting to Arm KVM

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 20:31:10 +0800, Jia He wrote:
> Inspired by what had been done by X86 kvm and kvm common codes, it would
> be better to make arm64 kvm consistent with them.
> 
> The memory allocations of VM scope should be charged into VM process.
> Hence change the allocation flag from GFP_KERNEL to GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT.
> 
> There remain some GFP_KERNEL unchanged since they are global allocations,
> instead of VM scope.
> 
> [...]

Applied to next, thanks!

[1/2] KVM: arm64: vgic: Add memcg accounting to vgic allocations
      commit: 3ef231670b9e9001316a426e794b2c74b8f6b4f6
[2/2] KVM: arm64: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations
      commit: 115bae923ac8bb29ee635e0ed6b4d5a3eec9371e

Cheers,

	M.
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