linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/7] memcg: reduce memory size of mem_cgroup_events

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Message-ID: <20240427003733.3898961-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:37:27 -0700
From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/7] memcg: reduce memory size of mem_cgroup_events_index

mem_cgroup_events_index is a translation table to get the right index of
the memcg relevant entry for the general vm_event_item. At the moment,
it is defined as integer array. However on a typical system the max
entry of vm_event_item (NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS) is 113, so we don't need to
use int as storage type of the array. For now just use int8_t as type
and add a BUILD_BUG_ON() and will switch to short once NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS
touches 127.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 602ad5faad4d..53769d06053f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -607,11 +607,14 @@ static const unsigned int memcg_vm_event_stat[] = {
 };
 
 #define NR_MEMCG_EVENTS ARRAY_SIZE(memcg_vm_event_stat)
-static int mem_cgroup_events_index[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS] __read_mostly;
+static int8_t mem_cgroup_events_index[NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS] __read_mostly;
 
 static void init_memcg_events(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	int8_t i;
+
+	/* Switch to short once this failure occurs. */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_VM_EVENT_ITEMS >= 127 /* INT8_MAX */);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < NR_MEMCG_EVENTS; ++i)
 		mem_cgroup_events_index[memcg_vm_event_stat[i]] = i + 1;
-- 
2.43.0