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Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 2b7cd24d4cda..06a595fd6400 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3637,6 +3637,34 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order) int ret; *_memcg = NULL; + + /* + * Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg + * internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such + * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are marked + * with GFP_KMEMCG only happen outside memcg core. We are mostly + * concerned with cache allocations, and by having this test at + * memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able to relay the allocation to + * the root cache and bypass the memcg cache altogether. + * + * There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create + * large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from + * the page allocator. Therefore, the following sequence when backed by + * the SLUB allocator: + * + * memcg_stop_kmem_account(); + * kmalloc(<large_number>) + * memcg_resume_kmem_account(); + * + * would effectively ignore the fact that we should skip accounting, + * since it will drive us directly to this function without passing + * through the cache selector memcg_kmem_get_cache. Such large + * allocations are extremely rare but can happen, for instance, for the + * cache arrays. We bring this test here. + */ + if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account) + return true; + memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm); /* |