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Message-ID: <Z-48ortj_IhiPxHg@tiehlicka>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 09:45:38 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@...a.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: vmalloc: simplify MEMCG_VMALLOC updates
On Wed 02-04-25 22:33:26, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The vmalloc region can either be charged to a single memcg or none. At
> the moment kernel traverses all the pages backing the vmalloc region to
> update the MEMCG_VMALLOC stat. However there is no need to look at all
> the pages as all those pages will be charged to a single memcg or none.
> Simplify the MEMCG_VMALLOC update by just looking at the first page of
> the vmalloc region.
I do not rememeber why this was done on page by page but I suspect
originally we could have mixed more memcgs on one vm.
The patch makes sense.
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Thanks!
> ---
> mm/vmalloc.c | 13 +++++--------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
> index 3ed720a787ec..cdae76994488 100644
> --- a/mm/vmalloc.c
> +++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
> @@ -3370,12 +3370,12 @@ void vfree(const void *addr)
>
> if (unlikely(vm->flags & VM_FLUSH_RESET_PERMS))
> vm_reset_perms(vm);
> + if (vm->nr_pages && !(vm->flags & VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES))
> + mod_memcg_page_state(vm->pages[0], MEMCG_VMALLOC, -vm->nr_pages);
> for (i = 0; i < vm->nr_pages; i++) {
> struct page *page = vm->pages[i];
>
> BUG_ON(!page);
> - if (!(vm->flags & VM_MAP_PUT_PAGES))
> - mod_memcg_page_state(page, MEMCG_VMALLOC, -1);
> /*
> * High-order allocs for huge vmallocs are split, so
> * can be freed as an array of order-0 allocations
> @@ -3671,12 +3671,9 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct vm_struct *area, gfp_t gfp_mask,
> node, page_order, nr_small_pages, area->pages);
>
> atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
> - if (gfp_mask & __GFP_ACCOUNT) {
> - int i;
> -
> - for (i = 0; i < area->nr_pages; i++)
> - mod_memcg_page_state(area->pages[i], MEMCG_VMALLOC, 1);
> - }
> + if (gfp_mask & __GFP_ACCOUNT && area->nr_pages)
> + mod_memcg_page_state(area->pages[0], MEMCG_VMALLOC,
> + area->nr_pages);
>
> /*
> * If not enough pages were obtained to accomplish an
> --
> 2.47.1
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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