memcg: simplify charging kmem pages
authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:48:59 +0000 (18:48 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 03:34:48 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
commitd05e83a6f861ad02c2fcba75d4c4cfe49e3bc90f
treed87199e3bfd92b28a3d890db5379e0d986b21557
parentbde304bdf4ec4a5f58cc1e90fe2d9cd2d96304c4
memcg: simplify charging kmem pages

Charging kmem pages proceeds in two steps.  First, we try to charge the
allocation size to the memcg the current task belongs to, then we allocate
a page and "commit" the charge storing the pointer to the memcg in the
page struct.

Such a design looks overcomplicated, because there is not much sense in
trying charging the allocation before actually allocating a page: we won't
be able to consume much memory over the limit even if we charge after
doing the actual allocation, besides we already charge user pages post
factum, so being pedantic with kmem pages just looks pointless.

So this patch simplifies the design by merging the "charge" and the
"commit" steps into the same function, which takes the allocated page.

Also, rename the charge and uncharge methods to memcg_kmem_charge and
memcg_kmem_uncharge and make the charge method return error code instead
of bool to conform to mem_cgroup_try_charge.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/memcontrol.h
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/page_alloc.c