linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] zswap: memcg accounting

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Message-ID: <CALvZod6kBZZFfD6Y5p_=9TMJr8P-vU_77NTq048wGUDr0wTv0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 May 2022 10:23:36 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
        Dan Streetman <ddstreet@...e.org>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] zswap: memcg accounting

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 8:29 AM Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org> wrote:
>
[...]
> +void obj_cgroup_charge_zswap(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, size_t size)
> +{
> +       struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
> +
> +       VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!(current->flags & PF_MEMALLOC));
> +
> +       /* PF_MEMALLOC context, charging must succeed */
)
Instead of these warnings and comment why not just explicitly use
memalloc_noreclaim_[save|restore]() ?

> +       if (obj_cgroup_charge(objcg, GFP_KERNEL, size))

Can we please make this specific charging an opt-in feature or at
least provide a way to opt-out? This will impact users/providers where
swap is used transparently (in terms of memory usage). Also do you
want this change for v1 users as well?

> +               VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +       memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
> +       mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAP_B, size);
> +       mod_memcg_state(memcg, MEMCG_ZSWAPPED, 1);
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +